Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“It is the right of a free individual to be unhindered in their liberty! Especially to fail in their endeavors! Only in… — Keith Parfitt Copy Share Image
“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I think everybody is allowed, especially when they're telling a story, as long as it's not based on somebody's real life, you're… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State.… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience… Liberalism does not… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand,… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think… — Mehmed the Conqueror Copy Share Image
Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law."… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering… — George Washington Copy Share Image
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“Don't be so ignorant as to think that what we're exercising is freedom if we've bled it of morals, purged it of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Because we have accepted the view that there is a trade-off between equality and liberty, we think we have to choose. Lately,… — Danielle S. Allen Copy Share Image
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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