The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties. — Charles I of England Copy Share Image
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. — James Otis Copy Share Image
“All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
Nothing gives me as much pride as being a part of a country where liberty dwells. I am a proud citizen of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
To some, incredibly, Russia has become a human rights leader. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, has succeeded in his asylum application in… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty. — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
“In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us...” — Faith Brashear Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again. — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image