The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the… — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“for he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of providing employment for full and idle… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now, one of your children may elect to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image