Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty. — Samuel Schmid Copy Share Image
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Oh Sweet Land of Liberty, humbly I give to you, my son praying you'll return him safely home when his work for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it. — Leopold Zunz Copy Share Image
“That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate… — George Will Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The Awakening Land" p614 But what in God's name did folks today want to make the whole world over like they were… — Conrad Richter Copy Share Image
“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate. — Henry Hyde Copy Share Image
In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
