The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an… — Timothy Murphy Copy Share Image
The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image