“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous… — William Tecumseh Vernon Copy Share Image
“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image