On Liberty Quotes
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.
It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.
God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)