Liberty Quotes - Page 77

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.

The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we are the most un-free society, in terms of institutions of the deprivation of liberty, of incarceration. The incidents of incarceration is higher in the United States than elsewhere in the world.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

In the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty.

Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.