Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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?

Hugo Grotius

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Honore de Balzac

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Honore de Balzac

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

I can always run as an independent. I wouldn't run as a Liberal with Paul Martin as the leader.

J. B. Morton

A library is a room where the murders take place.

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.

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.

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.

John Adams

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

John Adams

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Jacob Bronowski

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.