The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The president, the secretary of state, the businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the clients and managers—all walking around Wall Street… — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach…This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st,… — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...the story of liberty and its future is not only about the raw assertion of rights but also about grace, aesthetics, beauty,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
“The good historian, then, must be thus described: he must be fearless, uncorrupted, free, the friend of truth and of liberty; one… — Lucian of Samosata Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil… — Rocco Galati Copy Share Image
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We as human beings need freedom, and justice, and a true cause to engage in to make life meaningful. This basic and… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they… — Edward Livingston Copy Share Image
The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
“There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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