When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side; when they are not clearly defined, but are hidden or evaded, it works to the advantage of the irrational side. Ayn Rand
1905-1982
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The rule of law, which Hayek saw as crucial, both to the …
The rule of law, which Hayek saw as crucial, both to the economy and to the survival of freedom, is nowhere in greater danger than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With two or three exceptions, the Justices seem determined to be philosopher-kings, deciding issues according to ‘evolving standards’ rather than fixed principles, and responsive to the self-styled ‘thinking people’ rather than the written Constitution or the statutes passed to express the will of the voting public. Thomas Sowell
Dr. Thomas Sowell, January 17, 1994, (1930- ) American writer, scholar and economist, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute,Stanford, California
Trade barriers are an excellent means to higher wealth for the few …
Trade barriers are an excellent means to higher wealth for the few but lower wealth for the many. Dr. Walter E. Williams
May 14, 2003,http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20030514.shtml
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or …
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. Adam Smith
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I …
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865), 16th president of the United States.
WeÃve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for …
WeÃve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom and fairness. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Mar 8, 1985
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know …
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilization escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite. Russell Kirk
The Conservative Mind (1953)
It usually costs money to communicate an idea to a large audience. …
It usually costs money to communicate an idea to a large audience. But no one would seriously contend that a limitation on the expenditure of money to print a newspaper would not deprive the publisher of freedom of the press. Nor can the fact that it costs money to make a speech – whether it be hiring a hall or purchasing time on the air – make the speech any less an exercise of First Amendment Rights. Justice William O. Douglas
Whenever a state seeks to enforce substantive equality, in society, the principles …
Whenever a state seeks to enforce ‘substantive equality,’ in society, the principles of free speech, private property, and individual freedom inevitably raise insurmountable obstacles to the totalitarian project and are invariably suppressed. David Horowitz
As a junior member in the US House, he was a major …
As a junior member in the US House, he was a major force: He wrote and then spearheaded passage of the Superfund law. He even authored the US nuclear negotiating position. And at a time when President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev faced off on the superpower stage, Gore had his own meeting with Gorbachev. And, of course, he created the Internet. At various times in his political career, Gore, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said all those things about himself and his family. None are quite true. Some are exaggerations grown up around kernels of biographical fact. Others are simply false. A few, like the boastful claim about the Internet, have become comic fodder, even for Gore. Al Gore
Boston Globe, 4/11/00