If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from.… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
“Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The world seems a big vitrine to me, my arms are not too strong to break those glasses...my wishes are just one… — Ali Nazari Copy Share Image
“I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this?… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
“Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've got to get back to a sense of an American identity, and that identity is not nationality or religion or ethnicity.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Marvel fan and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking I think, if anything,… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people , only qualified by fear… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
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