Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Herbert Marcuse

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

Italo Calvino

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Hanoi Hannah

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

Harry Browne

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Harry Browne

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

Michael Ignatieff

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language.

I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'

Imran Khan

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

It will also move people to Crosby, Dayton, Liberty and Beaumont like it was originally designed.

Louisa May Alcott

Liberty must not be abused.

Louisa May Alcott

Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Jonathan Mayhew

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

Jonathan Edwards

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

Jonah Goldberg

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Justin Trudeau

Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Otto Hermann Kahn

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Pete Seeger

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

Paulo Coelho

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Peter Singer

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Quintus Ennius

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Primo Levi

I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.

Primo Levi

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.

Pico Iyer

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Pope Benedict XVI

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Jim Rohn

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!