Liberty Quotes - Page 35

When liberty returns, I will return.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.

What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.