Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Schroeder

I always preferred having wings to having things.

Oscar Wilde

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Lydia M. Child

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Michel de Montaigne

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Michel de Montaigne

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Michael Kimmelman

The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.

Mark Twain

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Mark Twain

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Tony Scott

So I sort of thought, 'OK, well, seeing as we're not completely telling her story, it gives me a sort of freedom to actually do what I want.' 

Abraham Lincoln

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Chad Johnson

Peyton has the freedom to do that when he sees something he doesn't like, ... That's something we've done without having to go to our coaches.

Dave Winer

One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

Norma McCorvey

I Am Roe: My Life, Roe v. Wade, and Freedom of Choice." ()

Charles Jenkins

I am thankful to the Japanese people for each day of my life I will now spend in freedom.

Marsha Blackburn

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Freedom requires a sacrifice the protected will never know!

Rebecca MacKinnon

Freedom only remains healthy if we think about the implications of what we do on a day-to-day basis.

'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Freedom is never absolute. There are limits. We should understand that we are now in the state of national emergency.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free he is his own trap.

Roy Scheider

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Lech Walesa

freedom came, but it is still hard to get bread.

Lykke Li

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

Brandon Roy

I wouldn't want to play in that system because I think they're too structured. It's too much that this guy is going to shoot on this play, or this guy is going to shoot on this play, instead of having a little more freedom offensively. But it works.

Mordechai Vanunu

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Jesse Ventura

shows that I support freedom and that no one is pulling my strings.