“The Empire's got something worse than whips all right. It's got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen,… — Marlin Fitzwater Copy Share Image
Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nobody's truly free. Everyone is prisoner to a secret, a sin, a lie. It wasn't by accident that, in the Star Spangled… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
“Instead of defining a few rights, Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 84, “Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way.… — Tim Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured… — Aung San Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The greatest responsibility you will ever have is to yourself. So free yourself from restrictions others try to place upon you, accept… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers—Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize, who you are and what you want to become in life, then you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Friends changed my life in so many ways. It gave me opportunity. It gave me freedom. It gave me a family of… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
Dr. Okun. Who's named after a special-effects guy named Jeff Okun, who had done Stargate for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
“Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just easier to tell a stranger than to tell the people you are close to. The freedom of speech is… — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Maybe because he’d been exiled from paradise by a beast of his own making. Because he’d decided Freedom was home, and he… — Margaret Killjoy Copy Share Image
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a régime. Genuine… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“The Work-Outs were successful because they balanced the psychological influence of immediate goals with the freedom to think about bigger things,” said… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“In Washington Square, one could still feel the characters of Henry James and the presence of the author himself. Entering the perimeters… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of filmmakers, actors and writers, who have the freedom to do the kind of work they want to… — Jaideep Ahlawat Copy Share Image
The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image