Individual Liberty Quotes
Individual Liberty Quote of the day
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.
They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.
There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.
Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.
Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.
You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.
I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.
Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.
We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other.
Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?
Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.
I became a Libertarian as a result of researching WWII and the Holocaust. Individual liberty is sacred.
There are those that want "freedom" from individual responsibility. Then there are those that want individual "liberty." I choose the latter. I am a Libertarian