Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel West

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Walter Lippmann

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

William Butler Yeats

Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.

Wilhelm Reich

Only you yourself can be your liberator!

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Walter Savage Landor

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Winston Churchill

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

William Safire

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income,

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

William Wallace

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Liberty trains for liberty.

W. E. B. Du Bois

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

Zadie Smith

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

William E. Simon

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

William E. Gladstone

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

Wendell Willkie

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

Wendell H. Ford

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

Wendell Phillips

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Virginia Woolf

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

William Blackstone

The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

Josiah Warren

Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.

Kofi Annan

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

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.