Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Madison

The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone.

James Madison

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

James Madison

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

John Dos Passos

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

John O'Donohue

In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours.

John Mortimer

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Milton

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Desmond Bernal

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

John Calvin

Free will is an empty term.

Jimmy Wales

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Garrison Keillor

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Frank Chodorov

The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.

Lord Acton

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Lord Acton

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Max Heindel

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

All of the meetings here are free - that's one of the main criteria.

Leonard Cohen

All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them.

All season we've been struggling with our free throws. We were practicing them and we were able to knock them down.

Edward Teller

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

Edie Brickell

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Edith Hamilton

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Eckhart Tolle

When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.

The men also had a strong 100 freestyle with our first sub-50 second swim in this pool. There's been little turnaround time for our senior team after the worlds and they've responded to the challenge.

Lewis B. Smedes

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People demand freedom only when they have no power.