Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Jay Leno

Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40.

Buzz Aldrin

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

Burl Ives

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

Erin Morgenstern

I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

Frank Murphy

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

Christopher Gadsden

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Herbert Spencer

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

Herbert Spencer

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.

Herbert Spencer

All socialism involves slavery.

Herbert Spencer

Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

H. L. Mencken

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Jean-Paul Marat

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

Giacomo Casanova

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

George H. W. Bush

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

George Harrison

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

Jesse Ventura

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

Jesse Ventura

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

Honore de Balzac

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Honore de Balzac

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Isaiah Berlin

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Isaiah Berlin

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

H. L. Mencken

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

H. L. Mencken

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

George Herbert

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

George Herbert

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.