Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

Ronald Reagan

Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."

Ronald Reagan

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

Ronald Reagan

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

Saint Augustine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Zane Grey

I need this wild life, this freedom.

Walter Lippmann

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippmann

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

Voltaire

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

William Ralph Inge

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Wilhelm Reich

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

Walter Winchell

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if freedom fall?

Ronald Reagan

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

William Drummond

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Wendell Willkie

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Wendell Willkie

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Wendell Willkie

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

Wendell Phillips

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

Wendell Berry

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

Wendell Berry

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Wendell Berry

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Walter Reuther

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

Walter Mosley

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

W. Somerset Maugham

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

William O. Douglas

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

William O. Douglas

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.

William Penn

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.