Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination… — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls,… — William Wallace 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
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
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
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty, teeth and keystone under independence. The church,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The thing with acting is I'm at the liberty of someone who wants to book me. With music, I can do it… — Ross Lynch Copy Share Image