Liberty Quotes - Page 27

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.