Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Ed Rendell

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

Elizabeth Bowen

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Byron Dorgan

The price of oil is to the free market system like mud wrestling is to the performance arts,

Neil Young

To protect our freedoms, it seems like we're going to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

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.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

So long as he is a free man, still a member of the House and participating in the conference, his influence is going to remain considerable.

Tony Scott

So I sort of thought, 'OK, well, seeing as we're not completely telling her story, it gives me a sort of freedom to actually do what I want.' 

So if it doesn't quite get to freezing on Saturday, it will sure feel like it, even while wearing a jacket.

She was 7-8 from the line and that helped us out a great deal. She has improved her free throw shooting throughout the season.

She thinks free throw shooting is the key to winning games and it is. We have to shoot 300 a week.

She's a tough girl. She'll find a way, through free throws, driving, slashing to the baskets. She's going to do something every game.

She's real quick and she knows how to knock down her free throws.

She's been a little sick, but she gutted it out. She made some pressure free throws, especially with Hill hitting those 3s.

She's one of the ones in practice who always steps up and makes free throws. She's clutch.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

Edward Kennedy

In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.

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.