Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. C. Watts

I'm a strong Liberal. I've voted Liberal all my life. I probably will again. But not this time. It's time for a change.

Calvin Coolidge

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Calvin Coolidge

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning.

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.

Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

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.

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.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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