Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and… — Hermann E. Ott Copy Share Image
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring,… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the Republican Party stands for individual liberty, if we defend the Bill of Rights, if we stand for keeping this country… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is… — Robert Bothwell Copy Share Image
We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom." Consider, then, the full measure of my sadness, reading this inscription; not merely for Hosiah… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo.… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding… — 1st Viscount Southwood Julius Elias Copy Share Image
I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this philosophy that in… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is something more than eternal vigilance. There must also be eternal advance. We can save the rights we… — Henry Demarest Lloyd Copy Share Image
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
"All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
As a devastating series of attacks rock America's oldest ally, the nation that stood by us after 9/11 that gifted us the… — Peter King Copy Share Image
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
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