Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

Bryant H. McGill

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

Bryant H. McGill

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Carson McCullers

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Carl T. Rowan

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Carl Schurz

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Alan Keyes

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Alan Coren

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dershowitz

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Alan Dershowitz

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Blaise Pascal

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Blaise Pascal

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Arthur Schopenhauer

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Bruce Bartlett

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Edmund Spenser

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Edmund Burke

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

Edmund Burke

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Eckhart Tolle

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Eckhart Tolle

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Elie Wiesel

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Elie Wiesel

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Elie Wiesel

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Edward R. Murrow

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.