Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they,… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government...… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death;… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
“A rebel! How glorious the name sounds when applied to a woman. Oh, rebellious woman, to you the world looks in hope.… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government… — Robert M. La Follette, Sr Copy Share Image
In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy,… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
Before the cell phone and the Internet, you felt a more pure sense of liberty than we do today. Whenever you left… — Tom Green 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
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Truth and liberty go hand in hand. Liberty is the state of mind, that gives rise to the truth, the ultimate state… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference.… — Hugh Downs Copy Share Image
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor,… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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