“[T]here can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.” Ayn Rand
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
A Constitutional Republic must protect the rights of all citizens — rich or …
A Constitutional Republic must protect the rights of all citizens — rich or poor — equally. Taxing one to provide for another makes a slave out of the first and a slave master of the second. Christian H F Riley
-1966
The people are confirmed by the next article of their right to …
The people are confirmed by the next article of their right to keep and bear their private arms. Tench Coxe
Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, The Federal Gazette and Pennsylvania Evening Post, June 18, 1789
We restored that island [Grenada
We restored that island [Grenada] to liberty. Yes, itÃs only a small island, but thatÃs what the world is made of – small islands yearning for freedom. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Mar 8, 1985
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The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent …
The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Liberals are so open-minded they won’t take their own side …
Liberals are so open-minded they won’t take their own side in an argument. Unknown
Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very …
Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was. US District Judge James C. Paine
US District Judge James C. Paine, addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government …
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson
Under such circumstances the freedom of master and employee to contract with …
Under such circumstances the freedom of master and employee to contract with each other in relation to their employment, and in defining the same, cannot be prohibited or interfered with, without violating the Federal Constitution. US Supreme Court
Lochner v New York, 98 U.S. 45 (1905)
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are …
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as public good. Friedrich A. Hayek
Nobel Prize Winnter, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960 (1899-1992)