No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of… — Harry S. Truman 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
When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.” — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
It wouldn't take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
The protection of our liberties does not ultimately depend on parliaments or even the courts. It depends on the love of the… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
