What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Countrymen: I have given proofs, as well as the best of you, of desiring liberty for our country, and I continue to… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher. — Alex Comfort Copy Share Image
Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Liberty plays an important role in justice, and there can be no justice without liberty, which is the power to do what… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image