Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Isaiah Berlin

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Isaiah Berlin

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Gloria Steinem

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Katherine Paterson

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

Keith Richards

The public library is the great equaliser.

Stephen Harper

a substantial strengthening of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Michael Badnarik

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Ray Bradbury

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Ray Bradbury

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

Ray Bradbury

A library is all the university you will ever need.

Ray Bradbury

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Ray Bradbury

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

Ray Bradbury

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Rand Paul

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

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.

Tobias Smollett

Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!

Rajneesh

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Mercy Otis Warren

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Michael Shermer

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

John Quincy Adams

Individual liberty is individual power.

John Owen

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

John Milton

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

Norm MacDonald

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

Nolan Bushnell

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?