Liberty Quotes - Page 36

Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!

There's small choice in rotten apples.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.