Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

The fundamental reality is that she's more liberal than the district.

Eric Hoffer

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Eric Hoffer

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Eric Hoffer

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

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

Orson Scott Card

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

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.

It's dated, but it's very nice. It could be used for the library if the town wanted to use it for that.

Stephen King

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

Thomas Jefferson

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Thomas Jefferson

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

Thomas Jefferson

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Thomas Jefferson

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

Thomas Jefferson

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

Thomas Jefferson

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Thomas Jefferson

Dependence leads to subservience.

Robert Higgs

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

Tamora Pierce

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

Tammy Bruce

As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.

Tacitus

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.