Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Time is the only thing you can't buy.
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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