Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Aldous Huxley

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Alexander Hamilton

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Adolf Hitler

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Alexander Smith

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

A. J. Muste

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Adam Smith

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

David Mamet

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Calvin Klein

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

P. J. O'Rourke

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Eamon de Valera

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

Etgar Keret

When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Cole Porter

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Diane Paulus

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Marianne Williamson

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Robert Jackson

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Ludwig von Mises

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Ludwig von Mises

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.

Ludwig von Mises

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

Jason Chaffetz

When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.