“Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
“It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government? — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Any society that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." Ben Franklin” — Ben Franklin Copy Share Image
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like… — Brandon Simpson Copy Share Image
Free men of every generation must combat renewed efforts of organized force and greed to destroy liberty. — Robert La Folette Copy Share Image
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — Anonymous 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
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector. — Donald T. Regan Copy Share Image
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished. (about her sister)” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“To find your individuality means to find your liberty -something most are afraid of - therefore, there is no need to teach… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image