The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to… — Ken Schoolland Copy Share Image
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek… — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi 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
I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we shall… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ...… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
