Liberty Quotes - Page 18

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.

The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.