Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Charles Sumner

Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles de Gaulle

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Charles Horton Cooley

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Charles Horton Cooley

Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.

Charles Horton Cooley

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Bill Vaughan

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

Niall Ferguson

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

What this is all about is freedom and flexibility for the local school community.

When we'd line up for a game, we had the freedom to go play, ... instead of thinking so much.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Axel Munthe

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Anton Chekhov

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, andamong youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

Anton Chekhov

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Abraham Lincoln

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Kurt Busiek

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

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.

Let's keep in mind that the world, the region, everyone was looking for how we rebuild the Freedom Tower and for what it represents in the rebuilding process.