Liberty Quotes - Page 43

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

Liberty begets license.

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Family - see Fascist State.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.