In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. — John Rawls 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
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free. — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing,… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can… — Allen Drury Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile... 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed… — Oliver Wolcott Copy Share Image
There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image