On Liberty Quotes

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

I don't have much patience for people who enjoy limitless liberty while decrying those who get their hands dirty to make sure it exists for them.

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth

Without "the people, " there is no country.

‎"For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

Freedom for freedoms sake."~R. Alan Woods [2006]

Grace has not been well understood by the post-modern church let alone applied as post-moderns in our lives as a reality that Christ secured for us."~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.

Liberty is always unfinished business.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.

None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

To be truly free it takes more determination courage introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.

0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!

Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

Give me liberty or give me death.