Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
'I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
Radical multicultural types will, in the end, destroy the things they claim to like, because they don't understand that liberty and reasonable… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...… — Mark Thornton Copy Share Image
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Let us be honest. Did all the priests of Rome increase the mental wealth of man as much as Bruno? Did all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her… — William H. Masters Copy Share Image
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but… — Mike Cloud Copy Share Image
The things being smuggled in under the cover of Brexit will damage so much of what we hold dear. A cabal of… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Far better was our homely diet, eaten in peace and liberty, than the luxurious dainties, the love of which hath delivered us… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
“I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle.… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
