Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Liberate yourself with the idea that you can be free from the chains of oppression. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
In America we were given freedom, some of us choose to honor that freedom and some of us choose to take advantage… — Wazim Shaw Copy Share Image
“Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They… — Thomas Stephen Szasz Copy Share Image
Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today,… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted… — Jack London Copy Share Image
[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption; they are for other people’s liberation.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
“America was the land of liberty--and liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of others.” — Milo Hastings Copy Share Image
“Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We must dedicate ourselves to the fundamental principles of liberty and justice that animate our laws and our governance. — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Politics is about maintaining a framework for ordered liberty so that people can live in the neighborhoods and the communities that they… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image