Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds.… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . .… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“As noted, late in their deliberations the drafters of the Constitution included a clause prohibiting religious tests or prerequisites for holding any… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
If what you seek is freedom, the only person who can teach you anything, the only person who can help you is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously… — James Carlton Copy Share Image
I personally like hard forks. Particularly, I like the fact that they give users a measure of control, requiring them to opt… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think one thing Liberty finds frustrating is a lot of this business is conducted through the media. That's something they're not… — Christian Horner Copy Share Image
I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police,… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty ; it is the foremost desire of all creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
It's not necessarily a church theme and it's not really about church. I like my album themes to be metaphors because it… — J. Cole Copy Share Image
You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
“I do not think that under modern Western materialism we should have anarchy. I doubt whether we should have enough individual valour… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“the posture than the results. This language thing is part of that. Excuse me: if you clean up the language too much… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
As long as we remain self-reflective and keep looking at who and what we are, as long as we keep our analysis… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution… — Nikolai Bukharin Copy Share Image
“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent,… — Jacobus Arminius Copy Share Image
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed that people sometimes quit a job soon after returning from a vacation? We all have a higher tolerance… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
We are all meant to be free, in that when we're free - whether it be from holding ourselves hostage with secrets,… — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In order to restore America's manufacturing, energy, and agricultural independence, we must first establish guardrails on how taxpayer subsidies can be spent. — John E. James Copy Share Image
I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom… — William Weld Copy Share Image