Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom,… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I want to be able to get my point across. I respect people expressing their freedoms and their liberties and their rights,… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Liberty has lost its spell; and democracy maintains itself by the promise of substantial gifts to the masses of the people.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off! — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty life is a misery — Andrew Hamilton Copy Share Image
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
My hairdresser loves me because he gets the liberty to get creative with my hair. — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image