Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Markham

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

Benjamin Franklin

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Benjamin Franklin

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

Benjamin Franklin

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Benjamin Franklin

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Diana Wynne Jones

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Diana Wynne Jones

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

Daniel Handler

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

Daniel Handler

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Coco Chanel

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Arthur Keith

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Maajid Nawaz

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

We tried everything we could to try to get him liberated well before the end of the 12-year sentence which he had received.

Yes, national security, that's all fine. But there's over 11 million here now, and they are not terrorists, so what do we do with them? I think we have to take away the extremes, the liberal and the conservative views, and get something done that we can realistically enforce.

Charles Bukowski

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Bruce Schneier

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Frederic Bastiat

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Frederic Bastiat

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

Frederic Bastiat

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...

Frederic Bastiat

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Frederic Bastiat

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Frederic Bastiat

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Frederic Bastiat

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.