What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Liberty and love These two I must have. For my love I’ll sacrifice My life. For liberty I’ll sacrifice My love.” — Sandor Petofi Copy Share Image
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and… — John Thune Copy Share Image
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile --… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I believe in the separation of powers. If a judge crosses the line between interpreting and making the law, he has crossed… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I believe that we need to purge abortion from our shores for the cause of life the same way that we purged… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday. — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
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