Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

William Shakespeare

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Berkeley Breathed

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

Portuguese Proverb

I would rather have a donkey that takes me there than a horse that will not fare.

John Erskine

That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey

Charles Spurgeon

Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat

Jason Smith

They used to have horses and donkeys in the parade.

Dutch Proverb

A donkey usually does not hit his foot twice to the same stone.

African Proverbs

A donkey knows no gratitude. - (Knappert, p. 138, Swahili)

Irish Proverb

The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey