Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

George W. Bush

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

George Steiner

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

George Soros

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

George Orwell

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

George Orwell

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

George Orwell

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

Jean Cocteau

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

George Carlin

Their only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

Frederick Douglass

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

Frederick Douglass

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

Frederick Douglass

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall....

Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Frederick Douglass

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Frederick Douglass

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Frederick Douglass

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Felicia Hemans

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.

Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.

Felix Frankfurter

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Fannie Lou Hamer

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

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.

Gerald Massey

I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.