Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Locke

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

John Locke

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

John Lindsay

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

George Mason

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

George Mason

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue.

George MacDonald

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

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.

Katharine Graham

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

Joseph Cook

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Joseph de Maistre

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Langston Hughes

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Langston Hughes

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

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.

Lyn Nofziger

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Louis D. Brandeis

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Lord Byron

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

Lord Byron

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Kelvin

Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Mahatma Gandhi

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.