Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Cassandra Clare

It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?

J. B. Morton

A library is a room where the murders take place.

Georges Bernanos

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

Jesse Jackson

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

James Buchan

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

James A. Michener

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

James A. Baldwin

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Frank Murphy

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

Christopher Gadsden

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Frances Wright

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

George Washington

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

George Washington

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

George Washington

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

George Washington

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money is coined liberty.

Jeanette Winterson

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

Jerzy Kosinski

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

George Herbert

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

George W. Bush

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

George W. Bush

This young century will be liberty's century.

George W. Bush

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

George W. Bush

Liberty can change habits.

George Orwell

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

George Orwell

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

Jean Cocteau

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

George Carlin

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

Frederick Douglass

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Frederick Douglass

Liberty for all; chains for none.

Frederick Douglass

What is possible for me is possible for you.