Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rand Paul

There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?

Seth Grahame-Smith

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Seth Grahame-Smith

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Noam Chomsky

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

Mike Pence

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.

John Ashcroft

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

Patti Smith

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Ted Cruz

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

Ted Cruz

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Thaddeus Stevens

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Kin Hubbard

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

Michele Bachmann

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

Michele Bachmann

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

Joseph Sobran

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Joseph Stalin

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Leonardo da Vinci

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

LeVar Burton

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

L. Neil Smith

I'm as radical as libertarians come.

L. Neil Smith

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

P. J. O'Rourke

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

P. J. O'Rourke

Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

Paul Singer

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Oscar Wilde

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Oscar Wilde

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

Lyman Beecher

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

Louis L'Amour

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

Michael Sandel

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Mark Twain

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Paul Begala

Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at CROSSFIRE actually present both sides of the issue. ... Look, if you want namby-pamby one-sided arguments go to Fox.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Mary Higgins Clark

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.