Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Adlai Stevenson

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

Elbert Hubbard

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

Elbert Hubbard

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Eleanor Roosevelt

This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

After all, 88 percent of the Americans polled by MSNBC News said Dr. Kevorkian should be freed from prison.

Sam Rainsy

the respect of fundamental rights, constitutional rights, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of movement.

There's a freedom being in the air. It's a lot of fun.

safe in the knowledge that the honor and memory of those men who gave their lives for freedom on the Western Front has been preserved.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

President Deby promised me that on Monday the (appeal) trial will take place and whatever the outcome of the trial, the two journalists... will be freed within 72 hours.

At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to say, 'There is no solidarity without love.' Indeed, there is no future for the individual and the nation (without love).

Matt Mullenweg

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Richard Gere

This is an outrage. There are no freedoms in China. There are no freedoms in Tibet.

There will be mass arrests, injuries and agony. But that is the price we should be prepared to pay for our freedom because next year we are going to be as confrontational as we have never been before.

Harry Frankfurt

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Herbert V. Prochnow

We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.

Herbert Spencer

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?