Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

Thomas Hobbes

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

Thomas Hobbes

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

Thomas Jefferson

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

Thomas Jefferson

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

Thomas Friedman

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

Hal Sparks

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

Herbert Spencer

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

Herbert Spencer

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.

Herbert Spencer

All socialism involves slavery.

Herbert Spencer

Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

H. L. Mencken

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Jennifer Chiaverini

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Jeff Sessions

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security.

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.

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.

Herbert Marcuse

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

Graham Greene

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

Franz Kafka

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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.