On Liberty Quotes

Benefit is the only blindfold required to convince ourselves that poison is wine. Liberty's comfort level rises and falls with the sympathies of its children. Well, I for one will not collaborate.

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation

Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.

Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

If you kill, kidnap & rape your opponents claiming that you're fighting the terrorist that is not exist!Soon it'll be existing as you're sowing it!Miserable Egypt!

The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la médaille pour tout collier)

Free and quality education is a fundamental liberty

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.

The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!

Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered.

The four L's: Love Light Life Liberty!!

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face.

Liberty! -- Electric word!

We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income.

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.

Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we stand on a knife-edge, not glad, but in acknowledgement of the bad, sad, mad gifts that the regime continue to offer us.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also beprotected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.