When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of… — Harrison Schmitt Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims .… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court… — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is… — Hal Turner Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty too relaxing, and that kindness… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is said that brother Joseph in his lifetime declared that the Elders of this Church should step forth at a particular… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty… — Bartholomew Roberts Copy Share Image
Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed… — Oliver Wolcott Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
That's really the big inspiration of this movie. It's really looking at a man who's really showing all the traits and all… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
“There's a school of thought today that rejects patriotism. People are made nervous by that intense allegiance to a country. They think… — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“These [the armed forces] are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image