Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Winston Churchill

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Will Rogers

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Zora Neale Hurston

No man may make another free.

Zane Grey

I need this wild life, this freedom.

Walter Lippmann

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Walter Lippmann

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Walter Lippmann

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippmann

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Walter Lippmann

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

Voltaire

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

Voltaire

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Voltaire

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Voltaire

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

William Ralph Inge

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

William C. Bryant

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Wilhelm Reich

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

Wilhelm Reich

The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.

Walter Winchell

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.

Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Winston Churchill

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if freedom fall?

Samuel Johnson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Ronald Reagan

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Ronald Reagan

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

William Hazlitt

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.