On Liberty Quotes
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.
I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.
At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.