Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty. — William Bradford Copy Share Image
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
'The people are the only sure reliance, for the preservation of our LIBERTY!' Thomas Jefferson — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs… — Barack Obama 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
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
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
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
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
Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image