Liberty Quotes - Page 37

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management ... The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos.

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.