And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white… — Roman Baldorioty de Castro Copy Share Image
There's something about Jason Katims' writing that just feels like home to me. He gives you so much liberty to play, which… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty,… — Charles Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass… — Allen West Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Rationality is not a prerequisite to liberty. There is a sapient right to be free, whatever conditions we find ourselves in. We… — L Neil Smith Copy Share Image
But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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