Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Paul Marat

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

Giacomo Casanova

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

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.

Hugo Grotius

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Honore de Balzac

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Honore de Balzac

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

J. B. Morton

A library is a room where the murders take place.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

Marc Garneau

The Liberal Party has taken a beating. Now it's time to move on.

The Le Mars Public library is a regional resource.

The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation struggle.

James Madison

Every word decides a question between power and liberty.

James Madison

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

James Madison

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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.

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.

Hilaire Belloc

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Hilaire Belloc

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Henry Ward Beecher

The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.

Henry Ward Beecher

The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.

Henry James

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Helen Thomas

Get the hell out of Palestine.