Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again. — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I hope the families of those who perished on the U.S.S. Oklahoma will find comfort and peace in knowing their loved ones'… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
Governor Ford is sworn to support the Constitution of the United States and also of this State Illinois, and these constitutions guarantee… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
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
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
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“With liberation comes strength, with liberation comes clarity, with liberation comes insight.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well. — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
“With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.” — Ray Hughes Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal;… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure… — John Cotton Copy Share Image
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. — James Otis Copy Share Image
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
