Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abdullah Ocalan

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

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?

Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

Brandon Sanderson

AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.

Archibald MacLeish

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Augustine Birrell

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Augusto Pinochet

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game.

She's insurance. She'll go in a living library of trees.

Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Edward Abbey

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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.

Annie Leibovitz

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

Aleister Crowley

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Alberto Manguel

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Alberto Manguel

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Albert Einstein

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Algernon Sidney

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Aldous Huxley

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.