The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. — William Greider Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty." — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I believe that it is my duty and your duty to teach our children concerning this great God-inspired Constitution, this great law… — Charles W. Nibley Copy Share Image
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I think one thing Liberty finds frustrating is a lot of this business is conducted through the media. That's something they're not… — Christian Horner Copy Share Image
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
“Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty ; it is the foremost desire of all creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty… — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize — Christine O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence” — Mazigh Buzakhar Copy Share Image
Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner. — Bono Copy Share Image
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Woe be to that nation, where the multitude is at liberty to follow their own inclinations!” — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
