Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Jesse Jackson

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

James Buchan

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

James A. Baldwin

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Frank Murphy

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

Christopher Gadsden

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Frances Wright

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

George Washington

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

George Washington

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

George Washington

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

George Washington

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

George Herbert

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

George W. Bush

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

George W. Bush

This young century will be liberty's century.

George W. Bush

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

George W. Bush

Liberty can change habits.

George Orwell

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

George Orwell

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

Jean Cocteau

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Frederick Douglass

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Frederick Douglass

Liberty for all; chains for none.

Frederick Douglass

What is possible for me is possible for you.

Frederick Douglass

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

Fernando Pessoa

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

Federica Montseny

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

Fanny Burney

O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

Eugene McCarthy

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Franz Kafka

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

These Liberty girls, they don't have sex, but you can always play in the mud!!