All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties. — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — Plato Copy Share Image
Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty! — George Moses Horton Copy Share Image
If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
