Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
[A] free government. . . cannot be supported without Virtue.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.
It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.
Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well
Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.