Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government.… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will… — Thomas Klestil Copy Share Image
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and… — Jeff Baxter Copy Share Image
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
“All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image