Famous Quotes

"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."

Richard Stallman on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Richard Stallman

• "When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal."

• "Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."

• "Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom."

• "In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't."

• "If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase."