Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. — James Randi Copy Share Image
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty. — George Washington Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The peoples' revolution … will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first. — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I've had the liberty of having a lot of control in the offences I've been a part of because I get the… — Jordan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Our American liberty defines our great nation. Let us each learn and do all we can to preserve it. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
“I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. — Catherine McCormack Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image