To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of… — August Spies Copy Share Image
To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
My hairdresser loves me because he gets the liberty to get creative with my hair. — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't. — Wally Hickel Copy Share Image
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. — James Otis Copy Share Image
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image