In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own happiness in our own way, so long as we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If in fact your time to be called before God, you typically won't know it. Sometimes you will, and these are the… — Rusty Bradley Copy Share Image
“The common element in both submission and domination is the symbiotic nature of relatedness. Both persons involved have lost their integrity and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
“My hero finally found me in that too-high tower, rescued me from it's cold walls, set me down among free men and… — Liza Palmer Copy Share Image
I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“You see, Mr. Vidón, back in the day in Venezia, anyone could disguise themselves in a bauta mask: ricco o povero, uomo… — Carlos Hernandez Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech, for those who don't accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" If I have freedom in my love, and in my… — T.J. Parsell Copy Share Image
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As the party that believes in economic freedom and low taxes, it is scandalous that we have presided over the tax burden… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
Jose Marti, known as 'the Apostle of Cuban Independence,' was an influential poet, journalist, and political theorist who became a symbol for… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image