At the age of nineteen [44 BC] on my own responsibility…

“At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored…

— Augustus

I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of…

— John Stark

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored…

— Augustus

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our…

— Samuel Adams

Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and,…

— E.C. Riegel

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism."…

— George Cardinal Pell

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

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

— Gordon Brown

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