Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Soros

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

George Orwell

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

George Orwell

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

Franklin P. Adams

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franz Grillparzer

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Franz Grillparzer

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Franz Grillparzer

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Franz Grillparzer

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Jeb Bush

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

George Will

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

George Sand

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Gerald Massey

I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Ian Stewart

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

Hugo Black

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hugo Black

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Hugh Downs

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

Hosea Ballou

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Horace

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Hannah Arendt

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Jean Cocteau

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

George Carlin

Their only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

Frederick Douglass

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Frederick Douglass

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

Frederick Douglass

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....

Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Frederick Douglass

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Frederick Douglass

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Frederick Douglass

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.