Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Bloomberg believes his money can buy anything - even the liberty of individual Americans. After all, his personal fortune bought him public… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States,… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on… — Deneen Borelli Copy Share Image
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity,… — George Leef Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions. — John Owen Copy Share Image
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was! — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that. — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have. — Richard S. Salant Copy Share Image
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them! — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty. — James Madison Copy Share Image
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed. — Deneen Borelli Copy Share Image
Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good. — George Washington Copy Share Image