Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thank God, thank God! I didn't say anything to her but to go up and hit the free throws. Karla's a shooter.

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Moira Kelly

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I'd never had to shoot free throws in a situation like that before. I just went up there and thought about hitting my free throws. I wasn't thinking about anything else.

Peter Thiel

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Euripides

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Euripides

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Euripides

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Ernest Renan

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Henry David Thoreau

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

Henry David Thoreau

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

Henry David Thoreau

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Henry David Thoreau

What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

Henry David Thoreau

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Henry David Thoreau

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

H. L. Mencken

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H. L. Mencken

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

H. L. Mencken

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

H. L. Mencken

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

H. L. Mencken

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Chris Patten

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Chris Patten

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

George W. Bush

I love freedom of speech.

In big games, we'll need those free throws, so that's what we've been working on.