Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

Alberto Moravia

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Albert Einstein

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Albert Einstein

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

Albert Einstein

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Alex Comfort

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Aldous Huxley

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Albert Pike

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

A. J. Liebling

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

A. J. P. Taylor

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Abdoulaye Wade

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Abbie Hoffman

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Abbie Hoffman

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Adrienne Rich

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

Tom Smothers

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

Tom Smothers

Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.

Caroline Winberg

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

Sophocles

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Nelson Mandela

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Chad Johnson

Peyton has the freedom to do that when he sees something he doesn't like, ... That's something we've done without having to go to our coaches.

Dave Winer

One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

Carl Sandburg

Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes.

Mike White

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Janet Frame

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Norma McCorvey

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