Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chris Patten

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Chris Patten

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

George W. Bush

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

George W. Bush

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

George W. Bush

Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

George W. Bush

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

George W. Bush

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

George W. Bush

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

George W. Bush

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

George Steiner

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

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.

Jean Cocteau

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

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.

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

Fisher Ames

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.