Liberty Quotes

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his pr...

Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she n...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method pos...

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to th...

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learn...

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologie...

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market...

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it ...

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that...

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates h...

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons ...

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it ...

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism an...

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the Uni...

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us ...

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves...

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is o...

If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his...

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The go...

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not d...

O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction ...

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in ...

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpr...

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up aga...

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty...

The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule o...

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics whi...

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not ...

There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe...

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoke...

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our p...

A right delayed is a right denied.

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift ...

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in or...

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle but if you leave youth its li...

Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and re...

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respec...

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounc...

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States int...

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government...

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are ...

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought...

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other...

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress ...

Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress ofcorpses.

Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to...

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhanc...

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disresp...

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he ...

Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a fo...

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for th...

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and ...

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortu...

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of ...

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it...

Give me liberty or give me d

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

Give me liberty or give me death.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The ...

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole ch...

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; an...

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, a...

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it...

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear f...

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,00...

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipati...

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ...

So free we seem so fettered fast we are!

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating th...