On Liberty Quotes

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Socialism is "group-think." How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for "group-think"??

Meanwhile, allow me to be me ….in all forms.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.

[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

I AM AN INDIAN, LIKE OTHER BILLION, HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY, HOPE TO FIND A GOOD WAY, WHERE THOUGHTS DIVINITY, IS NOT IN INFINITY, ITS UR LIBERTY.

Every command slaps liberty in the face.

Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.

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.

Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.

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

Liberty exists as the moral fiber within the political tapestry of man.

Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.

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.

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

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.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.

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'.

Finally liberty has come!

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.

To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum.