The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of… — Ronald Reagan 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
Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to… — Mark S. Fowler 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
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
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
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
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
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
“July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by… — Zoe Valdes Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson 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
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Because journalists of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty - the former broadcast into Eastern Europe, the latter into the Soviet Union… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
There's a principle here and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow...I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds.… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
