Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Robinson Jeffers

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Salman Rushdie

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

Salman Rushdie

Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is, 'Freedom is Indivisible,' you can't slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hedbo. ... But the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

William Cowper

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

William Cowper

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Wayne LaPierre

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Alone, no one wins freedom.

Robert Southey

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

Walt Disney

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

Walt Disney

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.

Vissarion Belinsky

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Virginia Satir

There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.

Vita Sackville-West

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Walt Whitman

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Saul Bellow

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Roger Ebert

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Robin Morgan

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

William Faulkner

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Ronald Reagan

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

Ronald Reagan

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

Ronald Reagan

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

Ronald Reagan

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Ronald Reagan

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Ronald Reagan

But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.

Ronald Reagan

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.