| "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 |
| "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The Statue of liberty is not that monument's name. It is liberty Enlightening the World." »Deane Jordan |
| "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 |
| "O liberty liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name" »Jeanne-Marie Roland |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it" »Jonathan Winters |
| "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 |
| "Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos." »Archbishop Ireland |
| "The only safe ship in a storm is leadership." »Faye Wattleton |
| "A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen |
| "A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder." »Chester William Nimitz |
| "A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." »William Shedd |
| "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." »Grace Murray Hopper |
| "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." »Louisa May Alcott |
| "History is the ship carrying living memories to the future." »Stephen Spender |
| "liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain." »John F. Kennedy |
| "To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense." »Napoleon I |
| "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned." »Samuel Johnson |
| "A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship." »Ivern Ball |
| "I think it's them...Men. They have no fortitude. They're always dying or skedaddling off at the first sign of trouble. So tell me this, who is left to pick up the pieces, ship the body. clean out the closets Us And they have the audacity to call us the weaker sex." »Robin Green |
| "An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled." »Saint Jerome |
| "Judge Smails It's easy to grin When your ship comes in And you've got the stock market beat. But the man worthwhile, Is the man who can smile, When his shorts are too tight in the seat." »CaddyShack |
| "Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across." »Rig Veda |
| "I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under." »Charles R. Swindoll |
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