Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lloyd George

Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Coretta Scott King

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Daniel Webster

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Daniel Webster

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Alice Walker

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Andrew Wyeth

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Spiro T. Agnew

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

Thomas Campion

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

Sun Ra

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

Simon Wiesenthal

There is no freedom without justice.

Rajneesh

Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.

Mercedes Lackey

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

Max Frisch

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

John Stuart Mill

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

Marianne Williamson

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

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.

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.

John Wilmot

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

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

Woody Allen

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

Jesse Jackson

She never stopped fighting, fundamentally in her own way, she was a freedom fighter.

Eugene McCarthy

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

George Orwell

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

Frederick Douglass

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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.

Ilya Ehrenburg

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.