Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Cass Sunstein

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Carl Barat

But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

Chang-Rae Lee

I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

Charles Fourier

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Bill Maher

Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context.

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

We're so excited. This is the first real new money for libraries from the province in a long time.

We're going to get a new library here.

Benjamin Franklin

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Benjamin Franklin

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Diana Wynne Jones

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Diana Wynne Jones

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

William Shakespeare

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Alexis de Tocqueville

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life....

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Alexandre Vinet

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Jiang Zemin

liberating their thoughts and seeking truth from facts.

Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.