Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Claude Bernard

The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

Dalai Lama

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Desmond Tutu

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

Anthony Quinn

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Anna Quindlen

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Douglas MacArthur

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Douglas MacArthur

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Corazon Aquino

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Colin Powell

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Aeschylus

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Jim Carrey

The truth will set you free.

David Anderson

What we're trying to do is present freedom through the lens of the First Amendment, but not in a way that we're telling people what to think.

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.