Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed by the words missing from the Trump campaign: Liberty, justice, freedom, and tolerance. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
“But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free… — James Farley Copy Share Image
“Liberty in Christ only becomes a reality in life through knowing and applying the truth of God’s Word, not just taking our… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Every man — in the development of his own personality — has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence,… — Thomas Emerson Copy Share Image
Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an… — Timothy Murphy Copy Share Image
In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
It wouldn't take us long to discover the substance of that dream. It is found in those majestic words of the Declaration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For most of the world, there's no greater symbol of America than the Statue of Liberty. It has been an inspiration to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“One might rejoin that the State, representing as it does the public welfare or the common interest of all, curtails a part… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty. — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
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
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne 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
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
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
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have. — Richard S. Salant Copy Share Image