The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
It isn't life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for some - it is declared for all of us. So let's celebrate America… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less… — Sam de Jong Copy Share Image
“We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When you look at what's written under the Statue of Liberty, it's the immigrant story. It's about 'bring me your tired, your… — Daniel Dae Kim Copy Share Image
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech,… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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