Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

Bryant H. McGill

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

Bryant H. McGill

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Carson McCullers

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Carl T. Rowan

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Carl Schurz

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Alan Keyes

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dershowitz

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Alan Dershowitz

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Blaise Pascal

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Eckhart Tolle

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Eckhart Tolle

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Elie Wiesel

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Elie Wiesel

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Elie Wiesel

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Edward R. Murrow

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Edward R. Murrow

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward Said

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Boris Yeltsin

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Archibald MacLeish

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Archibald MacLeish

Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Baruch Spinoza

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Barbara Ehrenreich

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Bruce Rauner

The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Charles Evans Hughes

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.

Charles Evans Hughes

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.