“Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.” GovernmentIndividualLibertyIndustryPropertyRewardsPrivilegeConclusionEntitledProvisionServitudeLiberty And Equality Author:Calvin Coolidge
“There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!” NamesLibertyRewardsGlassesPatrioticMajestyAmerican Revolution Author:John Hancock
“Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him. [Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum. Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto. Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur; Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.]” ChildrenCountryParentLibertyVirtueHighestAll ThingsSafetyPropertyRewardsProtectedAttendingOptimum Author:Plautus
“'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character. The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.” WorldLongCharacterUniverseNationsCommunityLibertyMoralVirtueWiseThis WorldRewardsRevelationsRighteousnessRulersExtinction Author:Samuel Adams
“Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.” NationsLibertyRewards Author:Sophie Swetchine
“In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.” PeopleNationsJusticeEffortLibertyTalentEqualProjectsEssenceLuckRewardsRageTyrannyIncomeOutcomesWickedCherishMadisonFederalistLiberty And JusticeInventiveness Author:Michael Novak
“By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.” ThinkingMenArtUseActionEnjoyNaturalHurtLibertyLordHonestHe ManIndustryFitMembersEternalPropertyFruitRewardsEqualityEvery ManLimitationTitlesLabourSoleEquity Author:Cato the Younger
“The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” MindHumansMeanEndsStatesGovernmentJoyUniverseHeavenPerfectLibertyMoralHellVirtuePlansCreationDivineHorrorApproachIntellectualPreparedRewardsVicesSupremePunishmentImitationDisobediencePietyReward And Punishment Author:John Adams
“If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the bible to be infallible, keep Sunday as a holy day, and work for a future reward, then our fight would be at an end instantly. Liberty of Conscience is all we ask - not control of any class, creed, or sect.” IfsThinkingBelieveEndsWould BeFightingAsksForceChristLibertyAcceptingClassAtheismHolyConscienceRewardsStrivePositive AtheismSundayCreedsSectsInfallibleHoly Days Author:Etta Semple