A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“...small government gives you big freedoms--and Big Government leaves you with very little freedom. The opposite of Big Government is not small… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?...… — George Will Copy Share Image
“An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty. — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role… — Alan Wilson Copy Share Image
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
“In the first place, there is no point whatever in being able to spell anything. Shakespeare and Milton could not spell; Marie… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
