Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty…

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another…

— Ron Paul

“Charles I. knew that Presbyterianism is the friend of civil freedom, and that Prelacy in the Church will more readily consent to despotism in…

— Various

To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys… Whenever the…

— Jedidiah Morse

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

— James Madison

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own…

— Henry George

The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter parent' to…

— Ben Sasse

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to…

— John Adams

In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common…

— Zachary Taylor

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

— Coventry Patmore

Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond…

— James Madison

“Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance.”

— Bryant McGill

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing…

— Saint Augustine

That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other.

— Ron Noades

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

— Zachary Taylor