The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom,… — Justin Amash Copy Share Image
The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely,… — William Barr Copy Share Image
I have taken every amount of creative liberty and freedom that I can get and I've actually managed to push it. I… — Matt Sydal Copy Share Image
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Being caught up in a game without having a clue about the rules, may be extremely maddening and frustrating. Liberty may be… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe,… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain… — William Magee Copy Share Image
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The bottom line is this: It is not, in a country that was founded on the values of individual liberty and personal… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place;… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1)… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The best doctor, if you're sick, may not be the one that shares your faith. We found that out to be true… — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system.… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
![“That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy has not yet been discovered. Perhaps it is an evil inseparable from the good with which it is allied; perhaps it is a shoot which cannot be…” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/52f/james-madison-373_america_that-this-liberty-of-the-press-is-often_908560.jpg)
![“[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c15/james-madison-373_church_the-proposed-establishment-will-have-a-t_1968416.png)
![“We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.” quote by Joseph Smith, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c1d/joseph-smith-jr-1647_america_we-think-it-would-be-wise-in-you-to-try_695400.png)
![“[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.” quote by Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/369/roger-scruton-971_form_burke-emphasized-that-the-new-forms-of-p_2637571.jpg)
