Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

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

Rush Limbaugh

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

Rush Limbaugh

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

Rush Limbaugh

Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

Thomas Merton

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

Thomas Jefferson

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Thomas Jefferson

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

Thomas Jefferson

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Robin Ince

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

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 J. Clinton

I can spend your money better than you can.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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.