Liberty Quotes - Page 66

Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.

The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are not the outcome of the operation of the free market. They are on the contrary the result of well-intentioned but ill-advised government interference with the market.

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.

The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it.