Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene McCarthy

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

Eugene Mirman

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

Euripides

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

Euripides

No one who lives in error is free.

Francis Picabia

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Francis Bacon

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Erwin McManus

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

Fisher Ames

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Henry Miller

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Helen Keller

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

safe in the knowledge that the honor and memory of those men who gave their lives for freedom on the Western Front has been preserved.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Mary Gauthier

The most important thing I got from philosophy was that there are no answers. There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all ... which is why to me a song should end with a question, not an answer.

Pablo Neruda

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

Richard Bach

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

There's a real freedom without all that stuff, once you learn to get by without all the things you thought were necessities.

Tom Robinson

As we all know, freedom is not free. ... His goal was to see the Iraqi people live free.

Jack Clark

This is sacred ground today. The price of freedom is truly visible here today.

This is something we'll stop and do for you so that you can have the same freedom that we have.

There will be mass arrests, injuries and agony. But that is the price we should be prepared to pay for our freedom because next year we are going to be as confrontational as we have never been before.

Matt Mullenweg

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Richard Gere

This is an outrage. There are no freedoms in China. There are no freedoms in Tibet.

David Keene

This is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns.

Euripides

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Euripides

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Euripides

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Ernest Renan

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Frank Herbert

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

George H. W. Bush

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

Jean Baudrillard

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveler is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats.

Joseph Joubert

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Joseph Joubert

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.