Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Graham

He was one of the most patriotic people I've ever met.

Kevin Brownlow

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Bainbridge Colby

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

Denis Diderot

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Barry Pepper

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

Sam Bahour

We live in open-air prisons with a wall around us.

Carrie Snow

I'd like to have a boyfriend in prison so I'd always know where he is.

Nada Doumani

For us what is significant is the way in which the prisoners are treated.

Asif Ali Zardari

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

Charles Colson

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

John Tucker

We stayed with the prison bus, and once we were in New Orleans, we never saw any cops.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!