As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“Each of us is born with a crazy passion to learn. Each of us craves knowledge of our world and our place… — Ps Pirro Copy Share Image
Dartmoor is my secret getaway. I love the freedom, the expanse and the solitude of the moor. I love walking or riding… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
People want to talk to other people - not a house, or an office, or a car. Given a choice, people will… — Martin Cooper Copy Share Image
I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“We know that the doctrine of equality leads by steps not only logical, but almost mechanical, to sacrifice the principle of liberty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
“Freedom of association is one of the natural rights of man. Clearly, therefore, it should also be a "civil" right. Right-to-work laws… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share Image
“You grabbed my hand and twirled me around, two sidewalk sweethearts. Then, very earnestly, you stopped, leaned over, and whispered, "You know,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight:… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all.… — Luis Valdez Copy Share Image
There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
When I left Free back in 1972, I didn't play 'All Right Now' until about 1996, when I was touring with Jason… — Paul Rodgers Copy Share Image
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are… — H.E. Kline Copy Share Image
“You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that." "Further?" "With your life. You must become free." She did… — James Salter Copy Share Image
What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it, then you feel bare… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“In another generation the voice of the majority, the blind, brute force of numbers, will rule everything on Earth. What government there… — George Griffith Copy Share Image
I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something… — Lorene Scafaria Copy Share Image
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all,… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The Declaration [of Independence] was a committee report, and [Tomas] Jefferson was simply the draftsman. [John] Adams's crucial role in bringing about… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image