I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own.… — St. Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall… — Elijah Parish Lovejoy Copy Share Image
'Free Mind' was a song written over a couple of years. It was pretty much three different songs that I couldn't figure… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
“Redistribution is a tricky business... What freedoms might one have to surrender in order for others to be free? And how to… — Dayna Tortorici Copy Share Image
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Long ago, I had learned that you could imagine anything you wanted, that the space inside your head belonged to you. Furnished… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
William O. Douglas married not one, not two, not three, but four hot blondes. He was not faithful to any of them,… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“They emerged, stumbling in to the starlight. The man at Marra's side gasped in air as if he had never breathed before.… — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
“In the "free world" (Natopolis) the centres of ideological orthodoxy are rarely defined. The diversity of intellectual trends within the orthodoxy, the… — E.P. Thompson Copy Share Image
“We have all this freedom in America—freedom people fought and died for—and we’re so afraid to exercise it. We’re afraid to talk… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Liberty may be granted but freedom cannot be conferred. Freedom is from within. Notwithstanding all the abuses to which freedom is now… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“What can be learned here is that often making do with less means having more energy and time for other things. Our… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm… — Kathy Hepinstall Copy Share Image
A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“Have you chosen your new name?” “I have a notion. How about you?” “I’m thinking on it but I haven’t settled. Tell… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on… — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness, that we, as a people, have bought into the false dream of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
What many students most want from college, although they would never admit it, is an authority structure. There is a demand for… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“We are part of what society can't bear to remember. Because if they really think about it, if they really look at… — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Our Founders were not naive simpletons. They understood that human freedom is a fragile thing, that 'eternal vigilance is the price of… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image