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Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person ... could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its time. He had only to find a value, even infinitesimal, for its attraction.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

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.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. These duties are, internally, love and adoration: externally, devotion and obedience; therefore provision should be made for maintaining divine worship as well as education. But each one has a right to entire liberty as to religious opinions, for religion is the relation between God and man; therefore it is not within the reach of human authority.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.