Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek,… — United Nations Copy Share Image
Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and… — Plautus Copy Share Image
The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Treat all men alike… give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled.… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict… — Henry A. Wise Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character,… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
