On Liberty Quotes

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

Breaking News: Winds so strong in NYC The Statue of Liberty's gown just blew off!

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

All good things are wild and free.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn.

If 50 million people say a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.