Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adolf Hitler

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitler

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Anish Kapoor

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

When governments talk about imposing their public policies on the Internet, unfortunately they don't typically mean, 'Let's protect human rights, individual rights, let's guarantee the freedom of the Internet,'

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Penn Jillette

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

We are living in the 21st century. It is time we respect our elephants, give them their freedom and put them in a sanctuary.

James Madison

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

Alvin Lee

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.

Archibald MacLeish

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

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.

Epictetus

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We're not taking away their freedom of speech. We're letting people know that Hyatt is supporting these people.

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.

Adam Michnik

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

Abe Fortas

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.