As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. — Bertrand Barere Copy Share Image
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. — William Henry Maule Copy Share Image
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many. — Howard W. Koch Copy Share Image
If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In truth, the legacy that President Obama's agenda will leave on history is the poisoning of the tree of liberty. — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In reading over the Constitutions of all fifty of our states, I discovered something which some of you may not know: there… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
