Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Kennedy

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Anthony Kennedy

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Anthony Horowitz

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

Alice Walker

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Aeschylus

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Jim Carrey

The truth will set you free.

David Anderson

What we're trying to do is present freedom through the lens of the First Amendment, but not in a way that we're telling people what to think.

Douglas MacArthur

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Douglas MacArthur

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Don Marquis

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Claude Bernard

The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

Dalai Lama

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Desmond Tutu

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

Dave Sim

I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use..

Cole Porter

Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

Clement Attlee

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Dante Alighieri

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

Cynthia Ozick

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?

Cyril Connolly

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

David Lloyd George

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

David Lloyd George

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

David Lloyd George

Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Coretta Scott King

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Daniel Webster

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Daniel Webster

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Daniel Webster

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

David Cameron

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

David Ben-Gurion

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

Anna Quindlen

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.