People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. — Benjamin Franklin 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
Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it — Michael Reagan Copy Share Image
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have. — Richard S. Salant Copy Share Image
The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation:… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty. — Samuel Schmid Copy Share Image
The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? ... Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Maybe there was a time that you could count on the American home as being the moral fabric center and that they… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty. — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
I am a Republican because I believe in individual liberty, responsibility, freedom. I believe in the Republican Party and the principles that… — Young Kim Copy Share Image