What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty.… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want to commend the men and women at CPAC. As activists fighting for liberty, fighting for the Constitution, y'all are incredibly… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“ Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were… — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich 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
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
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
“Our time is certainly out of joint. We have forgotten history for one reason and, if we are not careful, we will… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their… — Larry P. Arnn Copy Share Image
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
American women today want too much liberty; that's why they're unhappy. Because when an American man meets a woman, he treats her… — Katy Jurado Copy Share Image
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The Constitution under which we live and which has not only blessed us but has become a model for other constitutions, is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We haven't usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we're not a nation of extremists. We love… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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