Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“As God can protect his people under the greatest despotism, so the utmost civil liberty is no safety to them without the… — Alexander Carson Copy Share Image
“January 25, 1785, nineteen people gathered at the home of innkeeper John Simmons to form a society that would safeguard blacks who… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Alice knows those stories. The routiers and condottieri of the Free Companies, who fight the wars of whichever prince will pay their… — Vanora Bennett Copy Share Image
When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting… — George Voinovich Copy Share Image
“These choices are the product of spiritual maturity: The closer I press to the heart of God, the less I think of… — Phylicia D. Masonheimer Copy Share Image
“In the ideology of the free market, freedom is conceived as the absence of interference from others. There are no common ends… — William T. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
The People's Republic of China poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
“the very notion of personality, which is what we are trying to get at here, seems to have very limited application to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“Becoming free is learning about yourself; the scared and the insecure, the brilliant and the bold. Embrace both and the journey is… — Riitta Klint Copy Share Image
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's… — Stephen Hadley Copy Share Image
“The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very best possible to secure their own liberty and independence,… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The problem with money bail, for those who aren't familiar with it, is that it puts a price tag on freedom. It… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to… — John Powell Copy Share Image
People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot more freedom in doing the solo thing. It's almost like switching bands every time I do an… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in… — John C. Keats Copy Share Image
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“The irony that always amazes me when I see people up in arms about our war against Islamo-fascism is how they don’t… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
We are losing our country and the freedoms we have enjoyed. As Bible-believing Christians, we are the ones who must take action… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
The United States, after all, was founded by men of liberal sentiment who were seeking to promote the greatest good for the… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image