“For more than six hundred years – that is, since the Magna Carta in 1215 – there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and…

“If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be… If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”…

“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual & surest support?” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Source: letter…

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, (1882-1945), 32nd US President….

“If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.” William Graham Sumner, (1840-1910) American academic and professor at Yale College. Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays,…

“[The founding fathers] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be left alone – the right most valued by civilized men.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis, (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice 1928. Source Reference Justice Louis D. Brandeis Quote

“Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is…

“The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.” Mikhail A. Bakunin, (1814-1876) Russian revolutionary anarchist, founder of collectivist anarchism Proposition Motivee, 1868. Source Reference Mikhail A. Bakunin Quote

“Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.” Mahatma Mohandas…

“Positive laws are tyrannical. One’s individual rights – whether they be life, liberty, or property – must be sacrificed by the state in order to fulfill the positive rights of another. For example, if housing is considered a “right,” then…

“The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of…

“The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn’t get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.” Joseph Sobran, (1946-2010) Columnist. Source Reference Joseph Sobran Quote