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[I]f we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. – Thomas Jefferson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. – Justice William O. Douglas Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself. – James Madison Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. – C.S. Lewis Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so. – George Washington Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man. – Clarence Manion Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
By a declaration, liberty is born. With courage she is nourished, and with unceasing commitment she is guarded. – Eric Schaub Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society. – Justice Thurgood Marshall Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree. – Matt Coles Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. – Friedrich Hegel Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government. – Justice Robert H. Jackson Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away. – John Goodwin Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety. – George Mason Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
What is possible for me is possible for you. – Frederick Douglass Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society. – Alexander Hamilton Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The real haves are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real have nots are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor. – Eric Hoffer Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. – Calvin Coolidge Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid. – Epictetus Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
What shall be done with the four million slaves if they are emancipated? ... Primarily, it is a question less for man than for God -- less for human intellect than for the laws of nature to solve. It assumes that nature has erred; that the law of liberty is a mistake; that freedom, though a natural want of the human soul, can only be enjoyed at the expense of human welfare, and that men are better off in slavery than they would or could be in freedom; that slavery is the natural order of human relations, and that liberty is an experiment. What shall be done with them? Our answer is, do nothing with them; mind your business, and let them mind theirs. Your doing with them is their greatest misfortune. They have been undone by your doings, and all they now ask, and really have need of at your hands, is just to let them alone. They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone. – Frederick Douglass Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. – George Pataki Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. – Alexandre Dumas Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
All for one and one for all. – Alexandre Dumas Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. – Alexandre Dumas Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. – Alexandre Dumas Famous Quote	added 4 years ago

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