The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
NATO is based on shared values. Democracy, individual civil liberties and the rule of law. In public and also in meetings with… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
There are a number of Americans who've been taught that, that the Constitution has nothing to do with immigration. The Declaration of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think… — Randy Barnett Copy Share Image
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The issue isn't gun control but state control -- obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok. ... Forget guns. If… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
“The “Warrior Ethos” emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier… — Dan Smee Copy Share Image
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“Government” itself does no harm, because it is a fictional entity. But the belief in “government” – the notion that some people… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever… — William Cabell Rives Copy Share Image
Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union.… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The issue of cyber-security, cyber-crime, and cyber-malfeasance has an impact on a whole range of issues, not the least of which is… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
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