Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The peoples' revolution … will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping… — Mikhail Bakunin 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
I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience… — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how,… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way,… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon… — Samuel Chase Copy Share Image
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but… — Lysander Spooner 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
That is our generation's task, to make these works, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and… — Nancy Mace Copy Share Image
The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to… — Marie de Gournay Copy Share Image
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Copy Share Image
“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We must all rise to the challenge to demonstrate that security and prosperity in the Internet age are not only compatible with… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
At its core, our military is comprised of service members who are proud of their country and are willing to go to… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image