We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important. — James Green Copy Share Image
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise. — John Milton 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
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict… — Henry A. Wise Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character,… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The Prophet had made dishonorable proposals to my wife... under cover of his asserted 'Revelation.'... Smith told his wife Jane the Lord… — William Law 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
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence… From the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Racism, even in geography, cannot be tolerated in a country that strives for liberty and justice for all. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms... — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. — James Larkin Copy Share Image
To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need… — Bruce Mau Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!” — Marck E. Estemil Copy Share Image
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself. — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance! — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom. — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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