All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose,… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its… — Florence Ellinwood Allen Copy Share Image
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth — George Washington Copy Share Image
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my… — John Howard Copy Share Image
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled? — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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