“A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for cowards were erected, Churches built to please the priest!” — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free. — Euripides Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...the story of liberty and its future is not only about the raw assertion of rights but also about grace, aesthetics, beauty,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil… — Rocco Galati Copy Share Image
Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The conservative movement was founded on core principles of liberty, individual freedom, limited government and building and promoting strong families. — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
“Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.” — Tarun Sharma Copy Share Image
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, every hot cloudless day." -Liberty — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image