On Liberty Quotes

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Liberty begets license.

No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us, can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.