Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster

The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.

David Lloyd George

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

David Lloyd George

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

David Lloyd George

Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

Coretta Scott King

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Daniel Webster

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Daniel Webster

The man is free who is protected from injury.

Daniel Webster

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

David Cameron

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

Desmond Tutu

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

Anna Quindlen

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Andrew Johnson

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not.

Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Aneurin Bevan

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Anais Nin

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Andrew Wyeth

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Andrei Sakharov

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Andrew Cohen

Freedom has no history.

Angela Davis

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Anna Howard Shaw

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Ambrose Bierce

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

Ambrose Bierce

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Anthony Kennedy

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Anthony Kennedy

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Anthony Horowitz

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

Alice Walker

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?