It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human… — Claudio Hummes Copy Share Image
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Economic liberty, not just political liberty, is at the heart of the American experiment. You're not really free if you don't have… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
Patriotism and loyalty in defense of the Constitution of the United States is constantly enjoined upon us. President McKay again this morning… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends,… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
The mandated use of so-called 'vaccine passports' poses a huge risk to the personal liberty and privacy of millions of Americans and… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to… — Ken Cuccinelli Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" This cyclonic issue of secession was to be settled a third of a… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it.… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics,… — David Hume Copy Share Image