However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la médaille pour tout collier)” — Charles de Leusse Copy Share Image
“When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.” — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos. — Everlast Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin,… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Peter says “that we have not liberty as a cloak of maliciousness,” but as the means of testing and evidencing faith.” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us. — William Law Copy Share Image
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty. — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure… — Jacob Schiff Copy Share Image
Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be. — Sukarno Copy Share Image
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much… — Adriano Giannini Copy Share Image
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
