When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life,… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory -… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“ZOE given some liberty from heaven God young and a rebel Is this why you chose me up against it all I… — R.M. Romarney Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the State House, we fought to protect reproductive freedom for all Mainers - I'll continue to fight for patients and providers… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
We're designed to pulse. Our most basic survival need is to spend and renew energy. We're hardwired to make waves, to be… — Tony Schwartz Copy Share Image
“A great empire cannot bring freedom by its own decay to those corners in it where a subject people are prevented from… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The United States and our allies across the world are working every day to fight terrorism. We must continue those efforts, and… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Liberty,” boomed Wednesday, as they walked to his car, “is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.” “Yeah?”… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
“What happened to the Ford?” “God, Gloria made me sell it. Supposedly, I had too much independence—that’s the new theory, that I… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
“The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often, a bar cursed because of a girl… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized;… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
This new enemy seeks to destroy our freedom and impose its views. We value life; the terrorists ruthlessly destroy it. We value… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
Human rights are standards of behavior that are inherent in every human being. They are the core principles underpinning human interaction in… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
I'd require that every university, public or private, be governed by the constitutional standards regarding freedom of expression and due process. There… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein’s moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
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