Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Frances Wright

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing ...

George Washington

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Santayana

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

George Santayana

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

George Pataki

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

George Orwell

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Will

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

George Sand

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Jesse Jackson

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Gary Paulsen

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

George Jean Nathan

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Chris Patten

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Chris Patten

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

George W. Bush

I love freedom of speech.

George W. Bush

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

George W. Bush

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

George W. Bush

Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

George W. Bush

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

George W. Bush

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

George W. Bush

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

George W. Bush

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

George Steiner

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

George Soros

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

George Orwell

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.