There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed. — Deneen Borelli Copy Share Image
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Boys forget what their country means by just reading 'The Land of the Free' in history books. Then they get to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious:… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image