“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions. — John Owen Copy Share Image
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Many civil marriages are not considered 'holy matrimony' by religious institutions because they do not conform to the rules of the religious… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during… — Ron Paul 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
We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a… — Herbert V. Prochnow Copy Share Image
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have. — Richard S. Salant Copy Share Image
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that. — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all. — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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
They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty. — George Washington Copy Share Image
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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