Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

Saint Augustine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Winston Churchill

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Will Rogers

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Zora Neale Hurston

No man may make another free.

Zane Grey

I need this wild life, this freedom.

William Hazlitt

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

William Drummond

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Wendell Willkie

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Wendell Willkie

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Wendell Willkie

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

Wendell Phillips

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

Wendell Berry

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

Wendell Berry

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Wendell Berry

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Walter Reuther

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

Walter Mosley

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Vladimir Lenin

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Vladimir Lenin

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

Vladimir Lenin

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Vladimir Lenin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Walter Bagehot

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Walter Cronkite

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

Walter Cronkite

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.