Voluntarily Quotes

165 Voluntarily quotes by 146 unique authors

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life… — Ronald Reagan
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! — Saint Francis de Sales
I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers… — Pete Seeger
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In… — Lysander Spooner
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them. — Lysander Spooner
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it… — Adora Svitak
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. — Dorothy Thompson
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called… — John Stuart Mill
I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom. — Jen Lancaster
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? — P.D. James
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers. -Bella Cullen — Stephenie Meyer
Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing… — Gabrielle Zevin
Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted… — Eoin Colfer
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending… — Michael Lewis
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist. — Terry Pratchett
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might… — Erin Morgenstern
The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an… — C.S. Lewis

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