Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Miller

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Helen Keller

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Gary Paulsen

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

George Jean Nathan

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Thomas Campbell

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,/ And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciusko fell!

Candice Millard

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

Evan Wolfson

Gay people want the freedom to marry for the same reasons non-gay people do.

Franklin P. Adams

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franz Grillparzer

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Franz Grillparzer

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Franz Grillparzer

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Franz Grillparzer

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Jeb Bush

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

George Will

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

George Sand

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Michael O'Brien

Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

George Bernard Shaw

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Franz Kafka

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Franz Kafka

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Erich Fromm

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.

Erich Fromm

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Because the place is ours, we have the freedom to make it look like we want it to look. Plus this location is great, because we're right in the middle of things, but because we're in the back of the building, it's more peaceful.