Defend Quote by Michael J. Knowles

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

— Pope Benedict XVI

'Freedom' means a lot to conservatives, but they have such a narrow sense of what it means. They think a lot about freedom from…

— Pete Buttigieg

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd be libertarians.…

— L. Neil Smith

Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power…

— Robert Reich

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

— David Draiman

I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about the relation…

— Edward Snowden

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

— Alan Colmes

In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the…

— Russell Kirk

“Liberty may be granted but freedom cannot be conferred. Freedom is from within. Notwithstanding all the abuses to which freedom is now subject--marking man…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of…

— Frederick Douglass