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.

Gary Murphy

Parkview's a good team. They're going to be a dangerous team for a lot of people in their conference.

Marcia Angell

Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.

Gary Weiss

Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.

Nasser Judeh

Such extremely dangerous weapons included missiles, explosives and machine guns. Such practices contradicts the nature of the Jordanian-Palestinian ties.

Simon Davies

Surveillance over our private lives has reached a dangerous new level.

Pink Floyd

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Sal Rosselli

Staffing has decreased dramatically over the years. Their normal operation is to eliminate departments and lay off staff. It's all about money to them. That's the real danger to patient care.

Rohan Gunaratna

Some groups have deep linkage, others minor linkages. Some were established a long time ago, others recently. But they are more dangerous as a movement, and have a much wider reach.

Vaclav Havel

Our task is to feel the danger of these regimes.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Ludwig von Mises

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Val Kilmer

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.