Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Coulter

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

Aesop

Little liberties are great offenses.

Richard K. Morgan

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

This will pretty much put the libraries back together.

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.

Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Barry Goldwater

And if I should be accused of neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

Barry Goldwater

Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice

Barbara Amiel

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Barbara Amiel

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Barbara Amiel

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Beverly Cleary

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

Beverly Cleary

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.