Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

David Hockney

When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

Edward Kennedy

In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

Benjamin Franklin

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Axel Munthe

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Anton Chekhov

Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, andamong youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

Anton Chekhov

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Please use your freedom to promote ours.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Elizabeth I

The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

Arthur Helps

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

Barbara Ehrenreich

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Charles Evans Hughes

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.

Charles Evans Hughes

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Bruce Rauner

The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Kris Kristofferson

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

Dennis Kucinich

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Dennis Kucinich

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.