The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.” — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou. — Edward Dyer Copy Share Image
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
'I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
“The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I think marriage is between a man and a woman. I think we're all created equal in God's eyes, I think we… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“...I realized how naive I was. My aunt Tina was right: this stuff does exist, and it does hurt people, and although… — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
The world has never known the freedom and liberty it did until the United States some 230 years ago - and if… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her. — Madame Roland Copy Share Image
A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory… you have a dream.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.” — Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use. — Michael Dertouzos Copy Share Image
When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep. — John T. Scopes Copy Share Image
You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image