Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within… — George Baumler Copy Share Image
We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you have lived your life in such a way that no one has ever found you obnoxious then you have my… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. — Thomas Hobbes 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
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. — Anne Baxter Copy Share Image
This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector. — Donald T. Regan Copy Share Image
On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilised country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We are gonna to have to choose as a nation between the homosexual agenda and freedom because the two cannot coexist. Every… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence.… — H. L. Mencken 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 man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so… — Hugo Adam Bedau Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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