I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is… — Christopher Gadsden Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix… — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products… — Edward Francis Hutton Copy Share Image
President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises… — Daniel Webster 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
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom… — Jo Ann Davis Copy Share Image
For me, driving - or the right to drive - is not only about moving from A to B; it's a way… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
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