Famous Quotes & Sayings

Millard Fillmore

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Milla Jovovich

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

John Winthrop

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

John Ruskin

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

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.

Louisa May Alcott

Liberty must not be abused.

Louisa May Alcott

Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Jonathan Mayhew

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

Jonathan Edwards

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

Jonah Goldberg

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Jim Rohn

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

Jim Rohn

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

George Lucas

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Dear me, how I love a library.

John Howard

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...

John Hancock

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John Garamendi

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

John Donne

Death is an ascension to a better library.

John Dewey

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Joe Jonas

I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

Joan Miro

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

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.

James Madison

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

James Larkin

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Joe Paterno

You can't have a great university without a great library.