Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Krumholtz

The freedom of knowing that you're doing something off-kilter is liberating.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

William Shakespeare

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Beverly Cleary

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Frederic Bastiat

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Frederic Bastiat

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

Frederic Bastiat

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...

Frederic Bastiat

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Frederic Bastiat

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Frederic Bastiat

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Frederic Bastiat

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

Deb Caletti

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Dennis Chavez

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

Edward Gibbon

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Edwin Markham

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.