This young century will be liberty's century.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

— George W. Bush

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand…

— George W. Bush

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

— George W. Bush

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

— George W. Bush

“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of…

— Peter Boghossian

Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the…

— Murray Rothbard

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

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

Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better…

— Dean Koontz

The young people today are the 21st century.

— Martin Scorsese

The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies and mountains…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,…

— Pico Iyer

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

— Anonymous

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

— Anonymous