Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
“In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty. — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
“All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless.… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us...” — Faith Brashear Copy Share Image
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.” — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes. — George Washington Copy Share Image