Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

We didn't shoot free throws well the whole game, we had too many turnovers and the rebounding could have been better. One of their kids got most of his stats off second shots.

We didn't shoot a single free throw over 40 minutes. It would be different if we shot jump shots, but it was a pretty physical game.

We don't have the pressure. We're the underdogs. We're free to just relax and play our game.

Epictetus

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We're not talking about free throws that could win or lose a game, we're talking about free throws that could end the season.

We're not taking away their freedom of speech. We're letting people know that Hyatt is supporting these people.

We are saying there can be no Freedom Day celebrations while there are people who are oppressed.

Tong Jian

We are quite happy with our performance today. There were just small imperfections. We can do better in the free skating.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Adam Michnik

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Abe Fortas

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

Alberto Moravia

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Albert Einstein

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Albert Einstein

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

Albert Einstein

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Alex Comfort

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Aldous Huxley

Liberties are not given, they are taken.