On Liberty Quotes
Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
