“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the… — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. — William Greider Copy Share Image
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Deregulation is a popular term that's used across the political spectrum. And it's one of these terms like "choice," that corporate interests… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels Copy Share Image
“I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Liberty, a room you paid for, good money, disrespect to everything, nothing about you – freedom...” — Jessie Georgina Sime Copy Share Image
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! — Henry James Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty." — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
