Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
“Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends,… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite,… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government.… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of… — Louis D. Brandeis 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
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
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
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
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
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
