[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington Copy Share Image
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever. — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently. — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait"… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone… — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal… — Gaetano Mosca Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Love of liberty, the refusal to accept your soul's enslavement, not even in exchange for paradise; stalwart games over and above love… — N. Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image