Freedom Quotes

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

The goal of libertarianism is not to permit people to be free, but to make them realize that they don't need anyone's permission to be free.

To claim that one can be happy without being free is to prove that one has no idea what happiness means.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. “I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth

Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, 'I'm free'.

Study after study has show that human behavior changes when we know we’re being watched. Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively *are* less free.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth.

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation

Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.

Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also beprotected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

I don't have much patience for people who enjoy limitless liberty while decrying those who get their hands dirty to make sure it exists for them.

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

Without "the people, " there is no country.

‎"For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

Freedom for freedoms sake."~R. Alan Woods [2006]