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.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

Charles Caleb Colton

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Charles Spurgeon

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

Charles Spurgeon

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

Chris Bohjalian

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?

Chris Alexander

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

Chita Rivera

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Camille Paglia

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Bob Beauprez

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

Bernard Tschumi

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Axl Rose

I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.