Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

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.

Ted Cruz

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

Ted Cruz

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

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.

John Adams

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

John Adams

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

Jacob Bronowski

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Jacob Bronowski

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

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.

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.

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.