Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The business of America is business. Calvin Coolidge January 17, 1923, 30th …
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
January 17, 1923, 30th President of the United States (1923-1929) 1872-1933
The private sector of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; …
The ‘private sector’ of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and…the ‘public sector’ is, in fact, the coercive sector. Henry Hazlitt
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to …
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. George Burns
By a faction, understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a …
By a faction, understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority of minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. James Madison
The Federalist # 10, 1787 (1751-1836)
You’re only crazy if you never ask for help. Robb Armstrong …
You’re only crazy if you never ask for help.
Robb Armstrong
in the comic Jump Start, January 25, 2001
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would …
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. H. L. Mencken
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore …
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
(26th President of the United States, 1858-1919)
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other …
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as …
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. James Fenimore Cooper
American Author (1789-1851)