Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Pearce

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

Ron Paul

The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.

Ron Paul

If you can’t protect life, then how can you protect liberty?

Ron Paul

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Mustafa Akyol

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

Tony Blair

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

Thomas Merton

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

Remy de Gourmont

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Robert A. Heinlein

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Robert A. Heinlein

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Tim Robbins

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

Thomas Jefferson

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Victor Hugo

When liberty returns, I will return.

Thomas Paine

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Robert Browning

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

Samuel Adams

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Samuel Adams

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Samuel Adams

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

Susan Sontag

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Tracie Peterson

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

Vince Vaughn

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Rush Limbaugh

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.

Rush Limbaugh

Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions and traditions that have given the world its morality, its virtue. The institutions and traditions which have defined freedom and liberty. That's what the left attacks.

Vincent Bugliosi

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

William Cowper

When was public virtue to be found when private was not?

William O. Douglas

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.