Famous Quotes & Sayings

Petro Poroshenko

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

Peggy Noonan

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Marianne Moore

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Max Frisch

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Max Frisch

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Maya Angelou

Don't let the man bring you down.

Maya Angelou

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

John Quincy Adams

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

John Milton

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

John Milton

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

John Milton

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

John Milton

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

Norman Cousins

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Nina Simone

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Nina Simone

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Mike Tyson

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

John Dos Passos

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

John O'Donohue

In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go towards it. You have to claim your own freedom before it becomes yours.

John Mortimer

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

John Milton

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Desmond Bernal

Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

Jimmy Wales

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Garrison Keillor

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Joe Arpaio

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

Lysander Spooner

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Lysander Spooner

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

John Green

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.