Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joanne Carner

You've got a free shot. You can always pitch out of the woods.

And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.

All week we have shot at least 50 free throws a day.

Tony James

The game will get to you. You get worn out, especially playing back-to-back games. But with me being a high percentage free throw shooter, I knew I was going to make them.

The freeze in '89 killed them all graveyard dead.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past

The free market would do us a lot of good; we don't have a free market. We have lost our free market to corporatists, who have come in to take their money and leave.

The free homeland is largely the fruit of his teachings,

Sean Whalen

This is only her second year swimming and she's taken six seconds off her 50 free and 12 seconds off her 100.

Barry Bonds

All I know is I get free juice.

All good things in life are inspired by your friends is the new All good things in life are free

All I can do is try to be a difference-maker once I do get back out there, ... Maybe I can free up another guy. Maybe I can take the double-team and somebody else makes a play. I just want to get myself totally healthy and get back out there and help out.

All I was thinking about was (Kentucky guard) Patrick Sparks. Pump-fake, foul, free throws.

Eric Hoffer

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

Eric Hoffer

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Eric Hoffer

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

Eric Hoffer

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

James F. Cooper

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

James F. Cooper

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

James Anthony Froude

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Friedrich Schiller

Where there is much freedom there is much error.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

Luis Bunuel

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.