“The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.” — William Apess Copy Share Image
The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good… — Jon Meacham 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
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children;… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face… — Ronald Reagan 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
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness. — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. — John Hancock Copy Share Image
To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved. — Bruce Herschensohn Copy Share Image
My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright,… — Samuel Francis Smith Copy Share Image
Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. — William Greider Copy Share Image
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are… — Peter Hoagland Copy Share Image
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek;… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
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