Famous Quotes & Sayings

Inmates have a lot of time on their hands in here and learning is a way to make good use of their free time.

John Jay

In all my years of coaching, I've never had a team with just one free throw. For us to be successful, we have to get to the free throw line.

Evan Williams

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

I'm most proud of him knocking down six of seven free throws. He had been struggling on the line. But Michael's our All-American and he showed it tonight.

I know they're not going to leave me, because if they do I'll make them pay. Hopefully I'll be able to free up some of the other guys on the court.

Plutarch

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Philo

Every virtuous man is free.

Philip Yancey

Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Moshe Dayan

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Katherine Anne Porter

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

John Adams

[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.

John Adams

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

John Adams

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Stockwell Day

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stokely Carmichael

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Jimmy Carter

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

Jimmy Carter

I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.

Jimmy Carter

The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.

Jimmy Carter

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life...

Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Menzies Campbell

The law on glorification may well have unwelcome implications for freedom of speech, but it will do nothing to improve public safety.

Felix Magath

The last matches had hurt our self-confidence, you could see that. We were nervous at first. But the 1-0 freed us up and I think we played a pretty good match after that.

Rafer Alston

(The last foul) was game-changing. He shoots it short, we get the rebound and the pressure's on them. They get two free throws and we have to score.

Phil Robertson

But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy.

Peter Marshall

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.