Liberty Quotes · Page 27

The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given…

— Robert Conquest

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of…

— Ronald Reagan

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

— Elizabeth Loftus

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty…

— William Blackstone

Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully…

— Kathy Change

Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom…

— George W. Bush

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

— James Madison

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will…

— Edward Abbey

I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone…

— Elise Stefanik

The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of…

— Faustino Ballve

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

— Tucker Carlson

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?

— George Orwell

The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It…

— Ted Olson

The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private…

— Ayn Rand

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not…

— Thomas Sowell

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a…

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil…

— Paul Krugman

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something…

— John Ruskin

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and…

— Judith Crist

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

— Vano Merabishvili

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion…

— John Quincy Adams

“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing…

— Walter E. Williams

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

— John T. Scopes