I would curse people who resort to coups against democracy, liberty, republic. — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“All corners else o' th' earth Let liberty make use of- space enough Have I in such a prison.” — Shakespeare's Globe Copy Share Image
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except… — Henry Grady Weaver Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights… — Lee Myung-bak Copy Share Image
From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that… — Jacob Lew Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image