Liberty Quotes - Page 32

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.