Liberty Quotes - Page 51

Personal liberty is not personal license.

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is to act in a manner which could ultimately destroy the freedom of all American citizens, including the freedoms of the very persons whose feelings and whose liberties are the major subject of this legislation.

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

Liberty is the right not to lie.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

The era of big government is over.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.