Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us...” — Faith Brashear Copy Share Image
How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.” — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I guess I showed certain signs of being a workaholic in early years; I had a magazine route very early on -… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People came to America and they did not abandon their own cultures, but they assumed new ones, a new one, an American… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Power may justly be compared to a great river which, while kept within its due bounds is both beautiful and useful; but… — Andrew Hamilton Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again. — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
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