Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sallust

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Russell Pearce

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

Ron Paul

The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.

Ron Paul

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

Ron Paul

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Remy de Gourmont

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Robert A. Heinlein

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Robert A. Heinlein

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Ringo Starr

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Tim Robbins

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

Thomas Jefferson

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Free is not the same as free and easy.

Thomas a Kempis

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Scott Turow

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Stuart Pearce

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

Robert Browning

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

Samuel Adams

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Samuel Adams

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Samuel Adams

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

Kami Garcia

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Laura Bush

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.

Laura Bush

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Laura Bush

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

Mustafa Akyol

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

Tony Benn

I am a public library

Tony Blair

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.