No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal. — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God… — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.” — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. — William Muir Copy Share Image
“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All men labor under some impingements on their freedom; none is absolutely at liberty.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life. — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image