Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Necessity is a cold mistress, but Liberty inspires delightful bed-play.” — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
With Inspiration, Liberation and Determination, you can reach any Destination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course,… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon… — Samuel Chase Copy Share Image
Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image