A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism;… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict… — Henry A. Wise Copy Share Image
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States,… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Through your individual leadership, millions of gun owners across the nation made their voices heard sending an unmistakable message: stop President Barack… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck… — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against… — Steven T. Byington Copy Share Image
Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant."well...yes, but I'd… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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