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 almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty. — Bob Abernethy Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
“All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great… — John Stark Copy Share Image
“You aren't doing it for the sake of ideals, are you? Not for the sake of...liberty. Freedom, self determination, all that.' He… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
“Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty ; it is the foremost desire of all creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
I think one thing Liberty finds frustrating is a lot of this business is conducted through the media. That's something they're not… — Christian Horner Copy Share Image
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied. — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
True knowledge illuminates and liberates while ignorance veils your wisdom and holds you in bondage. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or… — Bonnie Blair Copy Share Image
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
