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Liberty and Freedom QuotationsThe following quotes have been submitted by various contributors... "The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." — John Adams "When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it." — Frédéric Bastiat "Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity." — Walter Block "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." — Justice Louis Brandeis "There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose." — William M. Bulger "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." — Winston Churchill "Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered." — Marcus Tullius Cicero "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled. The assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." — Marcus Tullius Cicero "You have the right to free speech – except, of course, if you're dumb enough to actually try it." — The Clash "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society." — John Dewey "As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air 'however slight,' lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." — Chief Justice William O. Douglas "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither." — Benjamin Franklin "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." — Milton Friedman "I start … from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief … that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right … I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position … involved the least intolerance on my part? … The most attractive position … is putting individual freedom first." — Milton Friedman "I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior." — Milton Friedman "Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature." — Milton Friedman "Economic freedom is … an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom." — Milton Friedman "[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property." — Andrew Galambos "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." — Gandhi "Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril." — William Lloyd Garrison "What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty … Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." — Elbridge Gerry "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue." — Barry Goldwater "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; [if] it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." — Judge Learned Hand "The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right." — Judge Learned Hand "The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them – make them their own." — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel "Where and when did freedom exist when the power of the sword and purse were given up from the people." — Patrick Henry "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." — Victor Hugo "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms." — Hubert H. Humphrey "At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments." — Ibn Khaldun "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." — Thomas Jefferson "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." — Thomas Jefferson "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." — Thomas Jefferson "Take life into your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing. No one to blame." — Erica Jong "Freedom to publish and read does not necessarily assure a society of justice and peace, but without these freedoms it has no assurance at all." — Myra Kostash "War puts no premium on freedom." — John Lazenby "Legislators are as powerless to abrogate moral and economic laws as they are to abrogate physical laws." — John MacKay "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." — James Madison "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." — James Madison "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." — James Madison "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." — James Madison, Political Observations "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." — Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks "You will never meet anyone who admires the American founders more than I do, but they were human, they made mistakes. Perhaps their worst was that their Bill of Rights stops at the border. Inside the US, the federal government has been limited. Beyond the borders, the government has been able to do anything it wanted." — Richard Maybury "Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property." — Richard Maybury "Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind." — Mencius "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it." — H.L. Mencken "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty "The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection … The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." — John Stuart Mill "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." — John Viscount Morley "There is more than a germ of truth in the suggestion that, in a society where statisticians thrive, liberty and individuality are likely to be emasculated." — M.J. Moroney "Historically, statistics is no more than 'State Arithmetic,' a system by which differences between individuals are eliminated by the taking of an average. It has been used – indeed, still is used – to enable rulers to know just how far they may safely go in picking the pockets of their subjects." — M.J. Moroney "Those who nourish the hope that it will be possible to keep central government free of the corrupting tendencies of power and to staff it with a freedom-loving elite, overestimate the virtues of both the electorate and the elected, and underestimate the normative power of structural processes even over well-intended functionaries." — Robert Nef "Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious." — Eugenio Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." — Thomas Paine "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." — Thomas Paine, The Crisis "Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!" — Ron Paul "Only the disciplined are free." — J.C. Penny "Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent." — Laurence J. Peter "Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle." — Iqbal Quadir "Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries." — Ayn Rand "It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices." — Ayn Rand "Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again." — President Ronald W. Reagan "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings." — Jalaludin Rumi "You live the good life, not by doing what you can do, but by doing what you want to do." — Barbara Sher "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." — Margaret Thatcher "A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty." — Mark Twain "[Politics] is a funny business all around. The same men who enthusiastically preach loyal consistency to church and party, are always ready and willing and anxious to persuade a Chinamen or an Indian, etc. to desert his Church, or a fellow American to desert his party. The man who deserts to them is all that is high and pure and beautiful – apparently; the man who deserts from them is all that is foul and despicable … Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." — Mark Twain "There is nothing that training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach or below it. It can turn bad morals to good, good morals to bad; it can destroy principles, it can re-create them; it can debase angels to men and lift men to angelship. And it can do any one of these miracles in a year – even six months. Then men can be trained to manufacture their own ideas. They can be trained to labor it out in their own heads and hearts, and in the privacy and independence of their own premises. They can train themselves to stop taking it by command." — Unknown "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire "It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty." — Ludwig von Mises "Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men." — Ludwig von Mises "What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war." — Ludwig von Mises "Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge." — James Wilson "The history of liberty is the history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." — President Woodrow Wilson |
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