Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabelle Eberhardt

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

Iqbal Quadir

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

Ilya Ehrenburg

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Jack Kemp

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Because the place is ours, we have the freedom to make it look like we want it to look. Plus this location is great, because we're right in the middle of things, but because we're in the back of the building, it's more peaceful.

Harriet Tubman

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Harriet Tubman

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harry Belafonte

Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

Harry Browne

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Clint Hurdle

He's our third baseman. We'll give him the freedom to play. We're not going to give him any power goals. We feel he's a good enough hitter and a smart enough hitter to be a good run producer.

Cindy Sheehan

I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis,

Richard Branson

I love the freedom that my phone gives me.

Norma McCorvey

I Am Roe: My Life, Roe v. Wade, and Freedom of Choice." ()

Charles Jenkins

I am thankful to the Japanese people for each day of my life I will now spend in freedom.

Sam Rainsy

the respect of fundamental rights, constitutional rights, freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of movement.

At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to say, 'There is no solidarity without love.' Indeed, there is no future for the individual and the nation (without love).

Bernard Baruch

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Graham Greene

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Dick Smith

We do not want government interfering in our lives, taking away reasonable freedoms with no good, objective reason to do so.

We're validating, we're recognizing, that's freedom of speech.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

John Trudell

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

Adlai Stevenson

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.

Chris Butler

We all want freedom, but real freedom is possible only if we understand our true identity.

Salman Rushdie

I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,

Tommy Franks

The prize we seek is another 200 plus years of freedom in this country.

The public is being ripped off in the name of freedom of information.