Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for the USA. I have family, I have friends that… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For generations, the Statue of Liberty has stood as the symbol of our nation; a beacon of hope and comfort to the… — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the… — Jesselyn Radack Copy Share Image
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Diversity, in the true sense of the word, is good. No one committed to liberty and equal opportunity disputes that. Every fair-minded… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
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