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"liberty has never come from the government. liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." »Nadia Boulanger
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"liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest." »John Winthrop
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"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington
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"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making" »Herbert Spencer
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"The Statue of liberty is not that monument's name. It is liberty Enlightening the World." »Deane Jordan
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"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment." »Walter Lippman
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent." »John Donne
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"The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves." »John Peter Zenger
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"O liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name" »Jeanne-Marie Roland
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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery." »Mary B. Yates
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"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." »Albert Einstein
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." »Benjamin Franklin
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"By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm." »The Dhammapada
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"Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." »George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
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"A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos." »Archbishop Ireland
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"liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy
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"liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." »J Danforth Quayle
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"liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." »James Madison, Federalist 10
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this." »Henry David Thoreau
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee." »John Donne
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"We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi." »Woody Allen
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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