Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Cindy Sheehan

I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis,

Richard Branson

I love the freedom that my phone gives me.

Chrissie Hynde

I pray that their walk to freedom will not be as long as yours was.

I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.

Evan Williams

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

I knew what type of player Willie was. So I had to let him go, I had to give him the freedom for us to have been successful. I knew that he would be out of position at times, but then he would turn around and make a key play, and everything would be alright.

Vladimir Lenin

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your personal freedom to experience yourself and life as you wish is not being limited. Step into your choices and stop telling yourself that you can't, when what you really mean is that you don't want other people to feel the way you think that are going to feel when they see you making the choices you really want to make.

Mike Lee

The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

Marcel Proust

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Joseph Addison

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

Jose Marti

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Joni Mitchell

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Khalil Gibran

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Khalil Gibran

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

Khalil Gibran

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Khalil Gibran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Jonathan Swift

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

John Adams

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

James Anthony Froude

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Henry A. Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.

Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.