We've got to have all those tools. The Patriot Act tearing down those walls between intel and law enforcement are a necessary… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever… — De Robigne Mortimer Bennett Copy Share Image
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards,… — Ron Paul 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
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
Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Can social progress be made without government? It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis… — David A. Norris Copy Share Image
We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce… The result will be an enforced inability of the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas 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
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
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
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
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
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![“We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce… The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens…And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of…” quote by Alan Keyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1f/alan-keyes-7078_america_we-may-well-soon-be-subjected-to-anythin_1202447.jpg)
