Liberty and personal independence in America are still a…

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since the struggle for our nation's independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual…

— Alexander Vindman

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas…

— Mercy Otis Warren

The United States of America are more of a concept than a historically evolved geographical conclusion, compared to European countries. I find this extremely…

— Josephine Meckseper

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could…

— Edward Said

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't…

— Rick Perry

“Democracy extends the sphere of personal independence; socialism confines it. Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Lucitta knew Russian politics, and discussed how Trotsky was compelled by Stalin’s régime to deny many of his beliefs. It seemed that Mella, believing…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

— Katharine Anthony

“It is clear that each party to this dispute—as to all that persist through long periods of time—is partly right and partly wrong. Social…

— Jonathan Haidt

“It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees, amongst…

— Frédéric Bastiat

It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people,…

— Frederic Bastiat

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the…

— Albert Einstein

“People continue to deploy the same justification of market society—that it would secure the personal independence of workers from arbitrary authority—long after it failed…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson