There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Small tyrants, threatened by big, sincerely believe they love liberty.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook. — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — Plato Copy Share Image
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as… — Julie Bindel Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.'… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price. — Dick Randolph Copy Share Image
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image