Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy,… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Before the cell phone and the Internet, you felt a more pure sense of liberty than we do today. Whenever you left… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope.… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
We've got to have all those tools. The Patriot Act tearing down those walls between intel and law enforcement are a necessary… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death;… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that… — William Rehnquist 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
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
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
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
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
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to… — Thomas Paine 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
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
Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another:… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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