Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
“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 primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price. — Dick Randolph Copy Share Image
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose… — Calvin Coolidge 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
Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility. — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of… — William F. Schulz 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, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. In sensing our… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II 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
Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
