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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. — Natalie Clifford Barney
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right… — Bob Barr
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little… — Bruce Barton
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character… — Bernard Baruch
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of… — Frederic Bastiat
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the… — Charles Baudelaire
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone de Beauvoir
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. — Simone de Beauvoir
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and… — Glenn Beck
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. — Martha Beck
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. — Henry Ward Beecher
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities. — Chester Bennington
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to… — Ezra Taft Benson
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand… — Alfred Adler
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its… — Annie Besant
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison. — Kathryn Bigelow
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve. — Theodor Adorno

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