Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
“Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. — George Soros Copy Share Image
“I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo." -Liberty Jones” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
“Liberty had at first left her disoriented, unsure if she could be on her own, and then it opened her” — Alexis Okeowo Copy Share Image
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution. — Richard Carlile Copy Share Image
When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image