Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Elizabeth Bowen

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Neil Young

To protect our freedoms, it seems like we're going to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Edwin Arnold

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

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.' 

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.

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Eric Fellner

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

Walter Benjamin

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom.

Lindsay Pulsipher

'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.

Victoria Smurfit

The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

Brooke Shields

I think once you have children, you just don't have the same kind of freedom to pick up and go. But then, I sort of think, how often did I really do it? How spontaneous was I really? Part of what I think I miss is this fantasy of my wild days, but they never existed!

Ben Shapiro

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

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.

Ben Carson

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Beau Willimon

I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.

Alexander Herzen

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

Alexander Hamilton

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai E. Stevenson

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.