Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the… — John Acton Copy Share Image
Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“This is so whether the said body of citizens or its prevailing part does this directly of itself, or commits the task… — Marsilius of Padua Copy Share Image
“It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy… Too much importance… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“What unified the Balochis in their quest to regain self-determination, which resulted in the ‘existing state’? On the one hand, authoritarianism, militarization,… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait"… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone… — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those… — William Thomas Walsh Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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