Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Louis Leterrier

I don't want to be Luc's henchman. I want to look for freedom.

Marc Warren

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Paul Mooney

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

Moira Kelly

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

Peter Thiel

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Harvey Milk

Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door.

James Boswell

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

James Frey

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

J. William Fulbright

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

J. William Fulbright

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Iyanla Vanzant

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

Immanuel Kant

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Immanuel Kant

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

Thomas Campbell

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,/ And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciusko fell!

Candice Millard

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

Patrick Henry

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Patrick Henry

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender... The legislature has ceded up to us the privilege of enacting such laws as are not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States... The different states, and even Congress itself, have passed many laws diametrically contrary to the Constitution of the United States...

Joseph Stalin

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Paul Robeson

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

Paul Robeson

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

Paul Robeson

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.