Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them...… — Isaac Barre Copy Share Image
The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control,… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not… — William Blackstone 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
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
“We are not called to fight the battles of our fathers with a blind faith. We are called to examine their wars,… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
I think that's why Donald Trump continues to enjoy evangelical support. They're not endorsing necessarily his lifestyle. What they're saying is this… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
“Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. And when the tides turn and the culture again celebrates what it means to be… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it… — Dan Gillmor Copy Share Image
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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