And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
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There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
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At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Countrymen: I have given proofs, as well as the best of you, of desiring liberty for our country, and I continue to… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a… — William Borah Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
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This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots… — James Abourezk Copy Share Image
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
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