Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hartley Coleridge

But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.

George Bancroft

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

The fundamental reality is that she's more liberal than the district.

Emile Durkheim

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

Edward Dahlberg

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty and equality are magical words.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Norman Vincent Peale

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Ellen Key

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Eric Schlosser

I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

Joseph Addison

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.

Jose Marti

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Jorge Luis Borges

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

Henry Hazlitt

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

Henry Hazlitt

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

Malcolm X

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Malcolm X

It's liberty or death! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!

Malcolm X

Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

Mahatma Gandhi

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Mahatma Gandhi

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

John Adams

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

John Adams

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

John Adams

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

John Adams

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

John Adams

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

Jean Cocteau

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