You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land. — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty. — John Hampden Copy Share Image
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they… — Charlie Dent Copy Share Image
“Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
“Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of… — August Spies 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
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
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
“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
“Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of “patriotism”.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
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