“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society. — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression… — Rafael k Nunes Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those… — William Thomas Walsh Copy Share Image
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone… — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait"… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
But we assure the socialists that we repudiate only forced organization, not natural organization. We repudiate the forms of association that are… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. — Henry Middleton Copy Share Image
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image