A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators]… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Being on my own was liberation, it was liberty, it was freedom, it was responsibility! It was the greatest thing in the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within… — George Baumler Copy Share Image
“A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who… — Faith Brashear Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
I am running for the U.S. Senate so that your kids and mine can continue to live in the kind of country… — Carlos Lopez-Cantera Copy Share Image
I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty;… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier - a place where law… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
"Give me liberty or give me death." A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The peoples' revolution … will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
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