What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty.… — E. Cobham Brewer Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the… — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into… — Lady Sophia Fermor 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance… — Mikhail Sholokhov Copy Share Image
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