Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber,… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know… — Pancho Villa Copy Share Image
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That's a big dream. It's not always easy to achieve,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“The government of Pakistan is yet to understand that the insurgency is not the disease but the symptoms of the disease. If… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long… — William Barr Copy Share Image
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Our country has a lot of problems. When the world looks at how bad the United States is and then we go… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly… — John A. Hobson Copy Share Image
The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have spent almost my entire adult life fighting to defend the religious liberty of every American to follow his or her… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the… — John Garamendi Copy Share Image
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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