Liberty Quotes - Page 23

After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Liberty is a product of order.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

You can only be free if I am free.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.