He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin. — George C. Homans Copy Share Image
“but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty to the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared. A great cry came… — David Cook Copy Share Image
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Our feet have been planted upon this sacred soil for a wise purpose. This land has been dedicated for the blessing of… — George Albert Smith Copy Share Image
“I don’t care what your excuse is, I don’t care what you think God told you to do, if you are in… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world." — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all.… — Luis Valdez Copy Share Image
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would curse people who resort to coups against democracy, liberty, republic. — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
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