Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Cecil Rhodes

We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Granth Sahib

He is the slave of the Lord's slaves.

Charlotte Bronte

Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!

Bryant H. McGill

If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

Abraham Lincoln

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

Abraham Lincoln

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Abraham Lincoln

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.