Liberty Quotes - Page 3

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.