Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis de Tocqueville

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Isabella Rossellini

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Like a lot of guys, Pudge has tried to do too much. Yes, he's a free swinger -- to a limit. This year he has expanded his zone.

Jim Woodring

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Life is a gift, but you do not get it for free

Make free throws. I told the girls, 'Let's make some free throws and don't foul.' That's how I felt. Let's make those free throws, and B.T. and Miranda made two of them. Not just one of them, but two of them, and that was great.

Lunch is provided, poles are provided; everything is free at this event.

Right now, I'm taking it a day at a time, ... I know if I produce here and play well here, when the opportunities come, there'll be a job. So there will be no reason to worry about being a free agent. Hopefully, I'll be locked in here for years to come.

Right at that time, you have to step up. I think as a team, we're doing a great job of knocking down (key free throws) and that's gotten us key wins.

Chad Johnson

Peyton has the freedom to do that when he sees something he doesn't like, ... That's something we've done without having to go to our coaches.

Dave Winer

One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

Nineteen free throws. We get her to the line that many times, that's a good sign.

Tim White

One of the real things that impressed me the most about Dr. Flores is that he's at a ninety-three percent free and reduced lunch school. So that tells you that people aren't very wealthy in that area. Yet, ninety percent of all the students went to college. Tells me a lot about him. I'm thoroughly impressed with him, and I think he's going to do us a great job.

Vince Carter

I was taking what they were giving me early. I was free on some pick-and-rolls and was able to get into the lane and make things happen. Later I was able to find open guys and they were knocking them down.

Baruch Spinoza

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Ayn Rand

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Ayn Rand

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Bertrand Russell

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Benjamin Cardozo

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

Carl Sandburg

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Carine Roitfeld

I love the free spirit in London.

We've stressed the free throws. The free throw line was big.

Calvin Coolidge

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Calvin Coolidge

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.