The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land. — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it… — Edgar Friedenberg Copy Share Image
“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation:… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
