Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Winchell

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.

Winston Churchill

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Winston Churchill

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

William J. Brennan

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

William J. Brennan

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Woody Guthrie

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

Woodrow Wilson

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Woodrow Wilson

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

Woodrow Wilson

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

Woodrow Wilson

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

Woodrow Wilson

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

Saint Augustine

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Winston Churchill

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

Will Rogers

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Zora Neale Hurston

No man may make another free.

Zane Grey

I need this wild life, this freedom.

William Hazlitt

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

William Drummond

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

Wendell Willkie

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Wendell Willkie

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Wendell Willkie

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.

Wendell Phillips

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

Wendell Berry

Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

Wendell Berry

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Wendell Berry

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.