Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna St. Vincent Millay

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Axel Munthe

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Anton Chekhov

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, andamong youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

Anton Chekhov

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

We knew we were going to have to make our free throws to win.

We let them have too many free throws. How can you win a game when you give them that many opportunities to get points?

Abraham Lincoln

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Abraham Lincoln

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.

Kurt Busiek

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

Lena Olin

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.

Sue Monk Kidd

I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.

Thomas French

Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit.

Ted Cruz

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.