It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.” — George Washington Copy Share Image
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When I started off as a choreographer, I had to do songs, which I may have wanted to do differently, but directors… — Remo D'Souza Copy Share Image
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because… — Charles Morgan Jr Copy Share Image
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully… — Kathy Change Copy Share Image
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it.… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
The late proceedings of those daring invaders to establish a national religion have opened the eyes of all lovers of liberty and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the fact that infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image