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 case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries… — Bill O'Reilly 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 term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of… — Hilaire Belloc 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
“...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
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
Portman embodies the formula for GOP modernization: a conservatism that unapologetically applies the principle of individual freedom consistently to both fiscal and… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
“The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed—no matter… — William Stevenson Copy Share Image
The European community of values is unique: It combines democracy with the market economy, individual freedoms with social justice. How can we… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“The values, first of all, of individual freedom, based upon the facts of human diversity and genetic uniqueness; the values of charity… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“We have been led to look upon taxation as merely a problem of public financing: How much money does the government need?… — Barry M. Goldwater 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
“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
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that's when the religion isn't effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of… — Jon Meacham 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
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, sociopaths are antisocial by nature, and their lack of empathy and foresight consigns them to view society only as a restraint… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
“James Madison made clear in Federalist 51 that that this elaborate structure—today often derided as “ gridlock ”—was created to protect individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to confront forces, whether they come… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Elite culture was deplored as shallow by the growing middle classes, who placed emphasis on family and intimacy. Denmark’s history, its egalitarianism,… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“Marxism rejected the family and the state, but in practice it kept these institutions. Every pure religion disapproved of man's worrying about… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image