Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rand Paul

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Rand Paul

There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?

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.

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.

Herbert Spencer

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

Herbert Spencer

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.

Herbert Spencer

All socialism involves slavery.

Herbert Spencer

Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.

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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

Hugo Grotius

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

H. L. Mencken

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.