He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact… They cultivate hate and distrust of both… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in… — John Galt Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving… — Sting Copy Share Image
The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Shall we longer bear these cruelties which have been heaped upon us for the last ten years in the face of heaven,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself.… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
