We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will. — Daniel Featley Copy Share Image
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.” — William Gladstone Copy Share Image
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“It is not true that the freedom of one man is limited by that of other men. Man is really free to… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities to God are consigned to the dust bin of history. We grew from that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions. — Murray Levin Copy Share Image
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“I condemn the liberty that is found in words and I ask for true freedom that’s visible to all.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.” — Tarun Sharma Copy Share Image
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
