A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. — John Milton Copy Share Image
America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats. — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
“The Pilgrims thought of liberty as the freedom to do what is right, not to decide what is right. In their view,… — Robert Tracy McKenzie Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. — James Otis Copy Share Image
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“So this was liberty. Mary was beginning to recognise the taste of it in her mouth: terror salting the sweetness.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay… — Sue Wicks Copy Share Image
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I have worshipped Berlin from the day I read 'Two Concepts of Liberty' in South Africa. It seemed to make it respectable… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty,… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image