Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Hopkins

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

George Washington

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

George Washington

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

George Washington

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

George Washington

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money is coined liberty.

John Quincy Adams

Individual liberty is individual power.

John Owen

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

John Milton

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

Norm MacDonald

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

Nolan Bushnell

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

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.

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

Edward Dahlberg

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Holbrook Jackson

Your library is your portrait.

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

John F. Kennedy

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Jonathan Mayhew

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

Jonathan Edwards

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

Jonah Goldberg

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

Justin Trudeau

Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

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.

Tess Gerritsen

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

Terry Tempest Williams

Storytelling is the oldest form of education.

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.