No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs, our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy… — Joel Miller 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
We are a product of our families, schools, and churches. Without the liberty and rule of law that characterize America, entrepreneurship would… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This sentence was much… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed… — Oliver Wolcott Copy Share Image
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty… — Bartholomew Roberts Copy Share Image
Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
I believe we must choose the path to faith, freedom and individual liberty. It starts with us, here today, now, Working together,… — T.W. Shannon Copy Share Image
The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When our mind works freely without any hindrance, and is at liberty to 'come' or to 'go', we attain Samadhi of Prajna,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave… — John Milton Copy Share Image
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene… — Bill Milkowski Copy Share Image
We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image