Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us...” — Faith Brashear Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty. — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
People from all over the world came to America and assimilated into a single culture rooted in the founding, which is rooted… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The first day of 'Liberty,' I was hanging around waiting for Ford to come in. Everybody told me how tough he was… — Lee Marvin Copy Share Image
Since the 1980s, Republicans have argued that policies embraced by a majority of Americans to promote equality of opportunity actually infringe liberty… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are… — Sieg Pedde Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison 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
“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
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama 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
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Politicized science is like a prostitute with an STD. You know she has been fucked by a dirty politician.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“And everybody knows a party means food!” Liberty yelled, causing a passing woman in a velvet dress to drop her fan to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty. — Dan Severson Copy Share Image
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.” — John Rawls Copy Share Image
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image