Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's something I've been wanting to say for a long time. I'm a liberal, and I'm proud of it. In fact, I was probably a little more liberal than Hubert was. I just wanted to say that.

Paul Wolfowitz

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Maajid Nawaz

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

Albert J. Nock

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

Albert Camus

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Albert Camus

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Albert Camus

Liberty is dangerous.

Annie Dillard

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

D. A. Carson

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

D. H. Lawrence

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

D. H. Lawrence

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

D. H. Lawrence

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

Daniel Cudmore

I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.

Alex Tabarrok

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

Alex Haley

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

E. M. Forster

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Douglas MacArthur

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Donald T. Regan

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Clint Eastwood

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Daniel Webster

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Dana Stabenow

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

Andre Breton

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Anita Roddick

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Andrew Wiles

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Anita Brookner

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Ambrose Bierce

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Ambrose Bierce

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Abraham Lincoln

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.