It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to… — Altiero Spinelli Copy Share Image
As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Because my mother chose life, we know that in this nation, this nation that is based on life, liberty and the pursuit… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution,… — Benjamin Franklin Fairless Copy Share Image
If someone who is poor says, 'I may not have much money, but for me, what's really important is to have a… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become… — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
There's something about Jason Katims' writing that just feels like home to me. He gives you so much liberty to play, which… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white… — Roman Baldorioty de Castro Copy Share Image
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty,… — Charles Lawrence Copy Share Image
When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is… — Arturo Toscanini Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
It is a significant fact that, of all the Christian countries, in those where the church stands highest, and has most power,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rationality is not a prerequisite to liberty. There is a sapient right to be free, whatever conditions we find ourselves in. We… — L Neil Smith Copy Share Image