The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say:… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You must live your life with a solid conviction and a moral constitution. If you start to dilute your convictions, then you… — Nicholas Zounis Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Of course, the new domestic paramilitary forces will also undermine free speech and dissent with the threat of force while simultaneously threatening… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice,… — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people.… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We lost our country somewhere along the way. We know where we lost it but we do not appear to have the… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Nobody else in the world can do what we can do. And nobody else is willing to do it for altruistic reasons.… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
You gotta love the names. They're so eager, earnest, and hopeful: Camp Prosperity, Camp Liberty, and Camp Victory are the names of… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
“We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves… — Horace Copy Share Image
Your freedom is brought to you courtesy of the outstanding Men and Women who serve and have served this country with honor,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The Nazi danger to our Western world has long ceased to be a mere possibility. The danger is here now--not only from… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
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