Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong. F.A. Hayek
Nobel Prize Winner (1899-1992)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take …
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. Irwin Cory
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are …
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks — no form of government can render us secure. To suppose liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them. James Madison
Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788 (1751-1836)
Men like women with boobs. If they like flat chested women check …
Men like women with boobs. If they like flat chested women check whether they’re gay or not. Joy Behar
The View, Sept 16, 2008
An election is an advance auction of stolen goods. H.L. Mencken (…
An election is an advance auction of stolen goods.
H.L. Mencken
(Investor’s Business Daily, December 15, 2000)
The religious right are just decent Christians who believe that this country …
The religious right are just decent Christians who believe that this country was founded on the basis that the religious could be involved in government. They are simply resisting the notion that religion is a disqualifier for serving in government. Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh, The Door, November/December 1993
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. …
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
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…(O)ur sages in the great (constitutional) convention … intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country. Fisher Ames
American statesman, 1805
We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for …
We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized. Consequently, we defend each person’s right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.
Libertarian party platform
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution. …
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution. Grover Cleveland
While President in the late 1800s, vetoing a spending bill to assist drought-inflicted counties in Texas, (of which he vetoed hundreds) [22nd (1885-1889) and 24th (1893-1897) President of the United States] (1837-1908)