Liberty Quotes - Page 31

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.

Liberation is not deliverance.

It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.

My country is wherever liberty lives.

The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and dignity of society, to inquire into the motives of such publications, and to distinguish between those which are meant for use and reformation, and with an eye solely to the public good, and those which are intended merely to delude and defame. To the latter description, it is impossible that any good government should afford protection and impunity.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with political claims upon the state.

I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.