They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties. — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless.… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation:… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
