In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Members of the media, Jim Acosta of CNN and Glenn Thrush, formerly Politico, now the New York Times, and all of them… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of Americans think our kids will have a worse life than we did. That is a powerful indication we are on… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
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