Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Trademark law must not be used to inhibit the freedom of speech in this powerful and important medium.

Dana Rohrabacher

Today, we are welcoming a great hero of freedom.

Walter Benjamin

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Lindsay Pulsipher

'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.

Victoria Smurfit

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

Anish Kapoor

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Aeschylus

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

A. J. Liebling

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

A. J. P. Taylor

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Abdoulaye Wade

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Abbie Hoffman

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Abbie Hoffman

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Adrienne Rich

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

Adam Michnik

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Abe Fortas

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Eric Fellner

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Ludwig von Mises

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

Ludwig von Mises

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

Ludwig von Mises

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.