Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. — Christopher Gadsden Copy Share Image
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias. — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . . — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying… — Walter Karp 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
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years… — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Necessity is a cold mistress, but Liberty inspires delightful bed-play.” — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image