The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
By definition, the moment one crosses from center to left, one accepts more government control of people's lives. Therefore, the further left… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Power can be restrained only by counterbalancing power, Montesquieu reasoned. No man, and no political body or office, ought to possess unchecked… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and… — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression,… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“The constitution which emerged from the Assembly after six months of debate—it was passed on July 31, 1919, and ratified by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hygge relies on us finding a balance between self-containment and wholehearted participation, personal liberty and awareness of the needs of others. It… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as… — Harlan F. Stone Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called… — Benton MacKaye Copy Share Image
At peace with all the world, the personal liberty of the citizen sacredly maintained and his rights secured under political institutions deriving… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image