Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Felicia Hemans

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.

Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.

Felix Frankfurter

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Fannie Lou Hamer

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Eugene McCarthy

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

Eugene Mirman

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

Euripides

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Euripides

No one who lives in error is free.

Francis Picabia

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Francis Bacon

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Jesse Jackson

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Lord Byron

Even I / Regained my freedom with a sigh.

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Mike Wallace

Because I think you will want to have the freedom that you have now. But you're going to need more money to have the freedom that you now have.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

Adlai Stevenson

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Salman Rushdie

I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,

Tommy Franks

The prize we seek is another 200 plus years of freedom in this country.

The public is being ripped off in the name of freedom of information.

With freedom of speech comes responsibility. And one has to be sensitive to the people within a society, so there are limits to what can be said.

Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

Imre Kertesz

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

Jose Rizal

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Islom Karimov

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

Chris Butler

We all want freedom, but real freedom is possible only if we understand our true identity.