Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich August von Hayek

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Luanne Rice

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Lord Acton

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

John Ciardi

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

Matthew Lesko

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Maya Angelou

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Max Stirner

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Max Stirner

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Marilyn vos Savant

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Paula Fox

Freedom is a public library.

Laurie R. King

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Lisa Kleypas

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

John Stuart Mill

...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.

John Stuart Mill

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

John Stuart Mill

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

John Rawls

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

John Rawls

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

John Ray

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

James Lee Burke

God bless the Reference Librarians

Nick Bostrom

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

Philip Roth

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

Peter Drucker

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Penn Jillette

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

Penn Jillette

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

Tamika Catchings

The Liberty have more size, with Baranova, Wauters and Christon. Between those three, they can pretty much switch everything because they all play the 3, 4, and 5.

The liberal picture of sex is that it really isn't that much different from anything else it's all a question of consent.

Justin Trudeau

The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.