“Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks,… — Don Young Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Clearly divine grace and natural knowledge never diminish liberty, but rather increase and strengthen it.” — René Descartes Copy Share Image
That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.” — James Madison Copy Share Image
The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be. — John Henry Mackay Copy Share Image
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we steal a man's purse we are thieves. If we steal twelve hundred islands we are patriots. If you steal a… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever new threats and challenges may emerge, our nation will be able to face them squarely, deal with them, and yet allow… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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