You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime… — James Carriger Paine Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait"… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone… — Elise Stefanik Copy Share Image
...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison Copy Share Image
..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those… — William Thomas Walsh Copy Share Image
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon… — Samuel Chase Copy Share Image
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how,… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course,… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
The peoples' revolution … will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image