Civilisation Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so…

— Charlie Chaplin

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

— Mustafa Akyol

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than…

— Lysander Spooner

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And…

— William Kunstler

I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on a dollar…

— Tony Benn

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

— Benjamin Rush

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as…

— Noam Chomsky

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.

— George W. Bush

Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

— John Marshall

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to…

— Boris Yeltsin