Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

Edward Kennedy

In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Ayn Rand

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Ayn Rand

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Bertrand Russell

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Benjamin Cardozo

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

Carl Sandburg

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Elizabeth I

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Arthur Helps

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

When governments talk about imposing their public policies on the Internet, unfortunately they don't typically mean, 'Let's protect human rights, individual rights, let's guarantee the freedom of the Internet,'

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Penn Jillette

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

Tom Smothers

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

Tom Smothers

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

Caroline Winberg

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

Alberto Moravia

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.