“I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty,… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty. — Elizabeth Price Foley Copy Share Image
In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every… — Edmund Yates Copy Share Image
It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and… — John Howard Copy Share Image
The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you have lived your life in such a way that no one has ever found you obnoxious then you have my… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is my understanding that some groups who are opposed to visiting our campus are basing their decision on Liberty's concealed carry… — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death. — John Howard Copy Share Image
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.” — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Do not be an accomplice to the enemy by settling for the victim mentality. Choose liberty and walk in victory.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image