Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Browne

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Vladimir Lenin

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Clarence Darrow

You can only be free if I am free.

David Mamet

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

David Foster

The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.

Michael Gambon

There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?

Epictetus

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Mary Gauthier

The most important thing I got from philosophy was that there are no answers. There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all ... which is why to me a song should end with a question, not an answer.

Bernard Baruch

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Graham Greene

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Dick Smith

We do not want government interfering in our lives, taking away reasonable freedoms with no good, objective reason to do so.

Henrik Ibsen

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Harvey Milk

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Frances Wright

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...

George Washington

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Santayana

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

George Santayana

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Pataki

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.