Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having. — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I… — Randy Forbes Copy Share Image
A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.” — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
I hope the families of those who perished on the U.S.S. Oklahoma will find comfort and peace in knowing their loved ones'… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty. — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner. — Bono Copy Share Image
The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image