Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Webster

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Daniel Webster

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Daniel Webster

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Ambrose Bierce

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

Ambrose Bierce

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Anthony Kennedy

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Anthony Kennedy

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Alice Walker

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Albert Camus

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Albert Camus

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Albert Camus

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

Albert Camus

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Anna Quindlen

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Andrew Johnson

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not.

Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Aneurin Bevan

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Anais Nin

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Andrew Wyeth

What you have to do is break all the rules.

William Shakespeare

Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?

Raila Odinga

We are demonstrating in order to protect press freedom in Kenya. Press freedom in Kenya is under siege.

Robert Frost

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Robert Frost

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Robert Frost

The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....

Robert Frost

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Robert Frost

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Robert Frost

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Richard von Weizsaecker

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.