Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because… — William Wardell Copy Share Image
If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. And when the tides turn and the culture again celebrates what it means to be… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think that's why Donald Trump continues to enjoy evangelical support. They're not endorsing necessarily his lifestyle. What they're saying is this… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave. — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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