He [Sen. Barry Goldwater] spoke of freedom: freedom from the governments increasing demands on the family purse, freedom from the governmentOs increasing usurpation of individual rights and responsibilities, freedom from the leaders who told us the price of world peace is acquiescence to totalitarianism. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Mar 8, 1985
spoke of freedom: freedom from the governments increasing … ]
Great men can’t be ruled.
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead, 1943. (1905-1982)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau
The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both the law and the facts. Oliver Wendell Holmes
1920. Supreme Court Justice.
The people never give up their liberty but under some delusion. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke, 1784 (1729-1797)
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. Ronald Reagan
The New York Times, October 10, 1984
The specter of an ignorant or indifferent populace has long haunted democracy. Montesquieu
1748
The markets love Republicans not for what they do, but for what they don’t do. They don’t nationalize the health care system, they don’t erect new protectionist barriers. Arthur Laffer
Economist, July 1998 Reason
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth… Bertrand Russell
Liberty is N and has always been N the properly defined exercise of freedom that does not violate the rights of others. Your right to liberty is not violated by restrictions on your freedom to rape and murder, because you have no such right in the first place. Randy E. Barnett