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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by…

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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…

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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together… — Winston Churchill
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.. — Francis Picabia
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams
Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them. — Jeffrey R. Holland
The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on… — H. Rider Haggard
The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with… — Tecumseh
It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend… — Angelina Jolie

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