Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented:… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right… — Ralph Norman Copy Share Image
Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
For years we've been told by secretive power hoarders we need to compromise some of our hot freedom for security. Civil Libertarians… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our fathers' God! to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light;… — Samuel Francis Smith Copy Share Image
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman didn't have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement, she was inspired by being sick and… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
“The pleasure which those girls were empowered to give me would have seemed less genuine, I should have had no faith in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise,… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The freedom of each is therefore realizable only in the equality of all. The realization of freedom through equality, in principle and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The first amendment gives us the liberty of expression, of religion, and assembly. Sometimes we don't like what people have to say,… — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
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