It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from.… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Instead of a bumbling and inefficient tool of society, the radical [libertarian] sees the State itself, in its very nature, as coercive,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
“I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this?… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
The world seems a big vitrine to me, my arms are not too strong to break those glasses...my wishes are just one… — Ali Nazari Copy Share Image
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've never met Colin Kaepernick, but he's a hero of mine. I'm in awe that he took it upon himself to publicly… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Aegistheus, the kings have another secret… Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think that we're guided by the motto in "essentials unity, non essentials liberty and in all things charity." So if pastors… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles… — David Mamet Copy Share Image