Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Brandon Roy

I wouldn't want to play in that system because I think they're too structured. It's too much that this guy is going to shoot on this play, or this guy is going to shoot on this play, instead of having a little more freedom offensively. But it works.

Wendy Kopp

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

I feel the Freedom, the team and the league, we have a great fit, including an owner who has done everything he said he'd do in relationship with Coliseum.

If investors are willing to fund the U.S. deficit, why wouldn't investors want to fund the press freedom deficit?

If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?

Tony Scott

So I sort of thought, 'OK, well, seeing as we're not completely telling her story, it gives me a sort of freedom to actually do what I want.' 

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Jesse Ventura

shows that I support freedom and that no one is pulling my strings.

Mordechai Vanunu

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

Walter Lippmann

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Dannel Malloy

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

Lord Acton

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

Ben Shapiro

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

Trademark law must not be used to inhibit the freedom of speech in this powerful and important medium.

Dana Rohrabacher

Today, we are welcoming a great hero of freedom.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.

Penn Jillette

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

Tom Smothers

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

Tom Smothers

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

Caroline Winberg

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Nelson Mandela

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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

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.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.