“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v.… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims .… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be… — John Milton 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
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the… — Andrew Ford Copy Share Image
The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. . . . [T]he former rather than the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle;… — James Otis Copy Share Image
This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
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