Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Butler

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Eric Fellner

The more you keep costs down, the more freedom you have creatively.

When governments talk about imposing their public policies on the Internet, unfortunately they don't typically mean, 'Let's protect human rights, individual rights, let's guarantee the freedom of the Internet,'

Alberto Moravia

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Albert Einstein

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

Albert Einstein

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

Albert Einstein

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Alex Comfort

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Aldous Huxley

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Albert Pike

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Alexander Herzen

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

Alexander Hamilton

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.

Adlai E. Stevenson

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adolf Hitler

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Adolf Hitler

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Dana Rohrabacher

Today, we are welcoming a great hero of freedom.

Ben Carson

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Beau Willimon

I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.

A. J. Liebling

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

A. J. P. Taylor

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Abdoulaye Wade

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Abbie Hoffman

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.