Victor Hugo Quotes
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
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Liberty means more to me than life itself.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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Of all crimes the worst Is to steal the glory From the great and brave, Even more accursed Than to rob the grave.
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I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
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Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.
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I'm afraid that legislators are lulled by this comfort, ... They figure someone will fill in the gaps.
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Keep a minimum of 15” between coffee tables and sofas.
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The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!
