If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight.… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and… — Jean-Jaques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“That in which every man is interested, is every man's duty to support. And any burden which falls equally on all men,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Just like equality, rights and limited liability companies, liberty is something that people invented and that exists only in their imagination. From… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith,… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I think that God has blessed each of us with innate gifts, and if I've demonstrated any ability to not stick my… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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