The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political-… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson said, The tree of liberty must be fertilized from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yeah… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce… The result will be an enforced inability of the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis… — David A. Norris Copy Share Image
Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Jose Marti, known as 'the Apostle of Cuban Independence,' was an influential poet, journalist, and political theorist who became a symbol for… — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“It is only when we see the worst that Man can offer, that we begin to see the best that Man still… — Faith Brashear Copy Share Image
If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are many things in America worth conserving. But I am one of those conservatives who believes the most important of those… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do… — Graceanne A. Decandido Copy Share Image
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person's right to bear arms does not… — Joe Kennedy III Copy Share Image
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The Constitution is brilliant for accountability; for posing factions against each other, to fight amongst themselves in government, which protects our liberty.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
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