The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed. — Deneen Borelli Copy Share Image
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The Scalia seat is defense. We're not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people.… — Charles Morgan 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
When we talk about defending Muslims, defending women, we're automatically by default excluding someone, but when we talk about defending liberty, when… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty. — Lawrence Hunter Copy Share Image
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. — George Washington Copy Share Image
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Copy Share Image
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
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