The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society,… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
“the more extensive operation of liberty implies that a more complete subjection and affection towards our Liberator had been implanted within us.” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could… — Cindy Brandner Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a remarkable document because it weaves into the fabric of our democracy the idea that government has… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis… — David A. Norris Copy Share Image
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce… The result will be an enforced inability of the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of… — Jonathan M. Wainwright Copy Share Image
“The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did? — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
“Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hopelessness.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image