liberty

Democracy is the best revenge.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

I love my country, not my government.

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly __ree_ state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes__ne indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.