I predict that the time will come in this once free America when the battle for religious liberty will have to be… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all...… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free… — James Farley Copy Share Image
People from all over the world came to America and assimilated into a single culture rooted in the founding, which is rooted… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our goal is to reaffirm that government by the people, speaking through their elected representatives, is the best way to keep us… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks,… — Don Young Copy Share Image
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Life of Ages, richly poured, Love of God unspent and free, Flowing in the Prophet's word And the People's liberty! Never was… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I don't trust that the big-business part of our coalition is ever going to defend federalism and argue against regulatory capture. I… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their… — Larry P. Arnn Copy Share Image