Top 1200 Statue Of Liberty Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

As long as men die, liberty will never parish.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

My life used to be like that game of freeze tag we played as kids. Once tagged, you had to freeze in the position you were in. Whenever something happened, I'd freeze like a statue, too afraid of moving the wrong way, of making the wrong decision. The problem is, if you stand still too long, that's your decision.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind of soul and is the Buddha in some sense. This is why we can pray to it. Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material - it's earth, it's water and - with fire - it takes on form and life. In fact, what is art? Art is giving to what you create a soul. That's why it is said God is like an artist.

We [Americans] know Martin Luther King Jr. as a statue. We know him as a holiday. We know him as a speech. We don't know him as a man. Most people don't even know the whole speech, just "I have a dream." They don't know what his speaking voice was like, how he looked at his wife, or that he had four kids.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.

What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

There is a certain creative liberty an actor or a director is allowed to take.

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Some in Washington say that you have to trade your liberty for security.

Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.