In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man. — African Spir Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves… — Horace Copy Share Image
The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans.… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world." — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers deliberately used the Bible as their guide. They tried to ensure that schools, likewise, use the Bible to teach… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“So if you were dating the UPS guy, he could buy you whatever the hell he wanted. But I cant."well...yes, but I'd… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will… — John Stuart Mill 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
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. — Filip Dewinter Copy Share Image
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is proved out of the holy scriptures that an unregenerate man is altogether destitute of the power and liberty of his… — Peter du Moulin Copy Share Image
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