All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music,… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Law is justice. And it is under the law of justice - under the reign of right; under the influence of liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power;… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane… — Wifredo Lam Copy Share Image
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image