The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every… — Edmund Yates Copy Share Image
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty. — Elizabeth Price Foley Copy Share Image
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
If you have lived your life in such a way that no one has ever found you obnoxious then you have my… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty… — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Oh, take the liberty! That’s what I would have done if Ethan and Mattie had run off together and left me on… — Gina Berriault "Women in Their Beds New and Selected Stories Copy Share Image
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Liberty was fought with bullets, Blood was shed for independence, Sacrifices were made for freedom.” — D.L. Lewis Copy Share Image
“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Do not be an accomplice to the enemy by settling for the victim mentality. Choose liberty and walk in victory.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness. — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
