In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. — William Weld Copy Share Image
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. — F. Lee Bailey Copy Share Image
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the… — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people.… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform. — Russell B. Long Copy Share Image
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both. — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
The values that underpin Nato are social democratic values: liberty, democracy, freedom of expression. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
“[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion. — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
“[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others. — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image