Clear Quote by Wendell Willkie

“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness,…

— Charles MacKay

“The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. The more indifferent people are to politics,…

— Milan Kundera

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no…

— Jacques Rigaut

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

— Mary Parker Follett

“The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to…

— Vasily Grossman

“We often confuse freedom with the ability to do whatever we want, thus becoming slaves to discipline and illusion.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.”

— Os Guinness

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

— Pamela Geller

“In theory, America was more equal than ever before, but the reality continued to tell a different story. Lyndon Johnson argued that the country…

— Condoleezza Rice

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the…

— Rachel Parris

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

— Lord Acton