The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of… — Horace Mann 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
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
“Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st,… — Luther L. Bohanon Copy Share Image
If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots… — James Abourezk Copy Share Image
The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court… — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There are many things in America worth conserving. But I am one of those conservatives who believes the most important of those… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
I would trade all the advantages of humanity to be a fly on the wall when Franklin and Jefferson discussed liberty, Lenin… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth,… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Of course it's a lot easier for me if I think of myself as a character to say certain things; it gives… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
