To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force?… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for… — Jeff Bingaman Copy Share Image
Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control,… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
“In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't.… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
And this is the mission of the church--not civilization, but salvation--not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality and liberty, but… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and… — John Thune Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty… — John Peter Zenger Copy Share Image
One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ...… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile --… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
