“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1)… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain… — William Magee Copy Share Image
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man,… — Randy Weber Copy Share Image
France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I testify to you that God's hand has been in our destiny. I testify that freedom as we know it today is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by… — J.G.A. Pocock Copy Share Image
A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the 'enemy combatant' cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and… — Richard Pinhas Copy Share Image
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I… — Randy Forbes Copy Share Image
The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
![“[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.” quote by Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/369/roger-scruton-971_form_burke-emphasized-that-the-new-forms-of-p_2637571.jpg)
![“We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.” quote by Joseph Smith, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c1d/joseph-smith-jr-1647_america_we-think-it-would-be-wise-in-you-to-try_695400.png)
![“So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is the foundational document for freedom not just for America but for freedom around the world.” quote by Randy Forbes](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7c8/randy-forbes-50757_america_so-goes-america-in-terms-of-freedom-so-g_2670678.png)
