“Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society.” StatesDreamGovernmentChoicesFatherIndividualLeftLibertyAuthorityUltimateConstitutionAlternativesWelfareConsistentFoundingTotalitarianismOur Founding FathersOrderlyOur ChoicesWelfare StateIndividual LibertyIndividual FreedomLargesse Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.” IndividualLibertyVictoryAuthorityGainsDefeatRescueJudicialConvictsIndividual Freedom Author:Robert H. Jackson
“I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.” ThinkingGovernmentIndividualStrongResponsibilityLibertyRepublicanDefenseTraditionalFreedom And LibertyLimited GovernmentIndividual FreedomNational DefenseFiscal Responsibility Author:Olympia Snowe
“I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.” WantAmericaIndividualResponsibilityLibertyPrinciplesEconomicCryConceptsWarriorRestraintPersonal ResponsibilityIndividual FreedomRallyingRallying Cry Author:Monica Crowley
“We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.” HumansActionLawIndividualLibertyIdealsDignityWho We AreExceptionalFreedom And LibertyHuman DignityIndividual Freedom Author:Jon Meacham
“We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.” FactsFacesIndividualJusticeViewsLibertyEconomyEconomicSatisfactionPreservationUmpiresIndividual FreedomIncompatibility Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” GivingPoliticsForceAttentionLibertyArmsCitizensGiving UpApproachGunPreservesPatriotismSuspectsJealousAmendmentsGun ControlRuinedFoundingJewels4th Of JulyFreedom And LibertyIntriguingSecond AmendmentFreedom LibertyProperty RightsFirearmsRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsIndividual LibertyGun RightsRights And FreedomsPro GunFounding Fathers GunIndividual Freedom2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentFramersPublic TrustPrice Of FreedomAnti GunAmendment 1Tyranny Founding FathersStrong ArmsAmending The ConstitutionAmendment 19Amendment 4Security And FreedomAmendment 13Guards Up Author:Patrick Henry
“There are many things in America worth conserving. But I am one of those conservatives who believes the most important of those things is liberty. Without liberty, without individual freedom, what is left to conserve isn't worth all that much.” BelieveImportantAmericaIndividualLeftLibertyIndividual FreedomConserving Author:Lyn Nofziger
“And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.” LooksIndividualPartyLibertyAfrican AmericanEmancipationCivil LibertiesIndividual Freedom Author:Rand Paul
“China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.” WorldWayIndividualLibertyDemocracyChinaTrendsSooner Or LaterBackwardsIndividual Freedom Author:Dalai Lama