Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Ayn Rand

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Bertrand Russell

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

Benito Mussolini

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Benito Mussolini

Family - see Fascist State.

Benito Mussolini

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

Benito Mussolini

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

He is firming up his support from liberal women.

'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.

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.

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.

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.