Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
When we talk about defending Muslims, defending women, we're automatically by default excluding someone, but when we talk about defending liberty, when… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared. A great cry came… — David Cook Copy Share Image
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a… — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Copy Share Image
Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I am a Republican because I believe in individual liberty, responsibility, freedom. I believe in the Republican Party and the principles that… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue… — James Henley Thornwell Copy Share Image
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage,… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the… — Edward Bennett Williams Copy Share Image
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social… — Laurence Kotlikoff Copy Share Image
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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