Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ann Coulter

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

Calvin Klein

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

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.

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.

Aleister Crowley

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Alberto Manguel

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

Alberto Manguel

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Alberto Manguel

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Alberto Manguel

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Albert Einstein

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Algernon Sidney

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Aldous Huxley

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

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.

A. J. Muste

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

Annie Leibovitz

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

'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.

Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.

Karl Barth

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

Jandy Nelson

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Janis Ian

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around.

Maajid Nawaz

The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.