Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom. In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do… — George Otis Copy Share Image
The other side of... pain is joy... control is freedom... sadness is happiness... chaos is calmness... individuality is community... hate is Love...… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
“It is when subjective consciousness maintains its independence of everything, that it says, 'It is I who through my educated thoughts can… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Here he sensed there was nothing in the landscape but itself. He was delighted at this liberation from history. The trees, the… — Anurag Mathur Copy Share Image
My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
To fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening scope, but enjoying the freedom that Scope eludes my grasp, that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She… — Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney Copy Share Image
“Country jakes are always whining about the sanctity of states' rights and individual freedoms. Yet when a couple of queers want to… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States.… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Particularly, strategists will need to answer many fundamental questions, such as these: • What are the main obstacles to achieving freedom? •… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
There are tradeoffs between independence and co-operation, between regulatory autonomy and market access. This means that compromises are necessary to deliver a… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“The anarch differs from the anarchist in that he has a very pronounced sense of the rules. Insofar as and to the… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance,… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image