The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it. — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
“No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Form 1040 was chosen by the IRS because for every $50 you earn, you get 10 and they get 40. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head. — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
A product of your life and liberty is your property. Property is the fruit of your labor, the product of your time,… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is… — Christopher Gadsden Copy Share Image
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
