We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“...the [Hawthorn] report revealed the logical fallacy that has haunted Indian history and policy in North America since contact - to wit,… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“The American Revolution and its aftermath coincided with two great transformations in the late eighteenth century. In the political sphere, there had… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The NRA is where you resist, and stand and fight to put America back on track to restore and preserve our individual… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom... — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom. — Kane Copy Share Image
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government.… — Don Willett Copy Share Image
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The government ought to be in the business of delivering health, education, housing, and basic services to people without a lot of… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
