Modern liberty in contrast was protection from unwanted…

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good…

— Anonymous

“When the old Liberals removed the gags from all the heresies, their idea was that religious and philosophical discoveries might thus be made. Their…

— G.K. Chesterton

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he…

— Thomas Hobbes

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to…

— Learned Hand

According to the laws and constitution of the people, which I [the Lord] have suffered to be established, and should be maintained for the…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

— Thomas Cooper

It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I'm a principle liberty, rule-of-law Conservative.

— Erin O'Toole

I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism.

— Marine Le Pen

“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of…

— John F. Kennedy

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

— Henry David Thoreau

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds…

— Anonymous

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…

— Ronald Reagan

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving