Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
[Conservatism:] Our revolutionary message... is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death. — John Howard Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Government has gotten too big, and it's infringed on our liberty and freedom. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image