Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“for men whose desire for liberty has been destroyed, liberty must be thrust upon them.” — Milo Hastings Copy Share Image
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men...They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death;… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman. — Junius Copy Share Image
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved,… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future,… — Ralph Neas Copy Share Image
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty too relaxing, and that kindness… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty. — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy. — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
... the next revolution ... will be when those who work refuse to support those who don't. — Wally Hickel Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image