Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it. — Leopold Zunz Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern,… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Dictatorships can exist with free markets - not that China is really a free market - especially in poor countries where the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
“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
...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
“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
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image