Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.” — William Apess Copy Share Image
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, &… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison 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
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.” — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
“Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of… — George Will Copy Share Image
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty. — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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