Liberty Quotes - Page 47

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

We are gonna to have to choose as a nation between the homosexual agenda and freedom because the two cannot coexist. Every advance of the homosexual agenda, comes at the expense of liberty, particularly religious liberty.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and consequently have one common right. No reason can be assigned why one man should exercise any power or preeminence over his fellow-creatures more than another; unless they have voluntarily vested him with it.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.

There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.