Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vita Sackville-West

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

Walt Whitman

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Saul Bellow

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Roger Ebert

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Robin Morgan

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Robert M. Hutchins

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Richard M. Nixon

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Robinson Jeffers

And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not say "en masse," you said "independence." But we cannot have all the luxuries and freedom also.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if freedom fall?

Samuel Johnson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Ronald Reagan

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Ronald Reagan

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Robert Southey

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

Wallace Stevens

Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Vladimir Lenin

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Vladimir Lenin

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

Vladimir Lenin

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Vladimir Lenin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Walter Bagehot

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Walter Cronkite

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

Walter Cronkite

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Salman Rushdie

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.