Liberty Quotes - Page 58

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

People fear witches, and burn women.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.