“The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.” IfsChildrenGovernmentFightingLibertySupportRightsGenerationsLandCitizensStandardsResourcesCapacityFunctionOur ChildrenPopulationPursuitContinentsPursuit Of HappinessHereafterLivelihoodDegradeStandards Of LivingThis GenerationLife Liberty And The Pursuit Of HappinessRights To Life Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.” MindHumansPassionLibertyHuman NatureStudentsStandardsParksProfessorsSplendidAdmirableHydeNullHyde ParkVon Mises Author:Ludwig von Mises
“America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWould BeAmericaFormCoursesNationsLibertyUnited StatesOne ThingStandardsIdealsCampaignsPropagandaConceptionImperialismGlobalizationMaterialisticStandards Of Living Author:Ann Bridge
“An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.” LittlesBookCountryFactsUseNumbersLibertyProduceStandardsEconomicsToolsTerrorismTerroristFamiliarAnalysisFewerCivil LibertiesInvaluable Author:Daniel Finkelstein
“Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.” MenGivingEnoughOpportunityFreedomLibertySecurityStandardsDecentLive By Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.” HappensLibertyCasesDangerLowsStandardsTradeWitThings HappenRemedyCommerceRestrictionPortImpositionEmbargo Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.” ChurchLibertyExerciseStandardsSaintDenialMouldLegalism Author:Walter J Chantry
“Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.” SelfStatesWealthLibertyHonestyDisciplineStandardsGoldCoinsConsumingNurturingOmnipotentSelf DestructGold Coins Author:Lawrence Reed
“Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.” LawPresidentLibertyTakenRepublicanStandardsSittingManagersAdherenceImpeachment Author:Bob Barr
“To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.” PeopleShouldHumansWarStatesLawYoungTalkingLibertyRightsStandardsInternationalHuman RightsDepartmentContinuingNobelCivil LibertiesDouble StandardInternational Law Author:Mairead Corrigan
“Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.” MeanGovernmentLawLibertyTechnologyRightsStandardsProtectionCivil LibertiesImplementation Author:Edward Snowden
“Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism, whenever you talk about progressive activity, that sort of moves the measure of liberty in human society forward, makes us all enjoy a better standard of liberty, it typically starts out criminal. It typically starts out a little bit shaky, and rather radical. And that's irrational to put yourself up to do that.” NeedsHumansLittlesSometimesMovingBitsEnjoyLibertyPrinciplesActivityLittle BitStandardsCommitmentActivismCriminalsRadicalProgressiveIrrationalHuman SocietyRadicalism Author:Edward Snowden
“Since 9/11 the United States has been followed by countries with bad records, such as the former Soviet Union countries, into erosions of human rights. Because the United States has changed its standards it is undermining civil liberties elsewhere.” HumansHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedLibertyUnited StatesRecordsRightsChangedStandardsUnionsHuman RightsFormerSovietElsewhereSoviet UnionCivil LibertiesUnderminingErosion Author:Mary Robinson