Top liberty Quotes Collection

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Image of Michael Sandel
They say the state should not impose on its citizens a preferred way of life, but should leave them as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.
- Michael Sandel
Collection: Liberty
Image of Edward Snowden
Privacy is a function of liberty.
- Edward Snowden
Collection: Liberty
Image of Arthur W. Pink
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
- Arthur W. Pink
Collection: Liberty
Image of Vince Vaughn
The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.
- Vince Vaughn
Collection: Liberty
Image of Joan Miro
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
- Joan Miro
Collection: Liberty
Image of Eamon de Valera
If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.
- Eamon de Valera
Collection: Liberty
Image of P. J. O'Rourke
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: Liberty
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collection: Liberty
Image of Herbert Spencer
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
- Herbert Spencer
Collection: Liberty
Image of Rand Paul
We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.
- Rand Paul
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Stuart Mill
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
- John Stuart Mill
Collection: Liberty
Image of Robert Nozick
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.
- Robert Nozick
Collection: Liberty
Image of L. Neil Smith
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.
- L. Neil Smith
Collection: Liberty
Image of Cole Porter
Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'
- Cole Porter
Collection: Liberty
Image of W. E. B. Du Bois
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
Collection: Liberty
Image of William Bradford
Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.
- William Bradford
Collection: Liberty
Image of Walter E. Williams
If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.
- Walter E. Williams
Collection: Liberty
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Liberty
Image of William J. Brennan
The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
- William J. Brennan
Collection: Liberty
Image of Josiah Warren
Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
- Josiah Warren
Collection: Liberty
Image of Jacob Bronowski
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
- Jacob Bronowski
Collection: Liberty
Image of Max Stirner
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
- Max Stirner
Collection: Liberty
Image of Ai Weiwei
Liberty is about the right to question everything.
- Ai Weiwei
Collection: Liberty
Image of Murray Rothbard
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
- Murray Rothbard
Collection: Liberty
Image of Murray Rothbard
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
- Murray Rothbard
Collection: Liberty
Image of Mercy Otis Warren
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.
- Mercy Otis Warren
Collection: Liberty
Image of Frederic Bastiat
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
- Frederic Bastiat
Collection: Liberty
Image of Ayn Rand
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Liberty
Image of Algernon Sidney
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
- Algernon Sidney
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Rawls
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
- John Rawls
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Rawls
Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.
- John Rawls
Collection: Liberty
Image of Ingrid Betancourt
In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.
- Ingrid Betancourt
Collection: Liberty
Image of Ludwig von Mises
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Liberty
Image of Ludwig Borne
Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you.
- Ludwig Borne
Collection: Liberty
Image of Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
- Tracie Peterson
Collection: Liberty
Image of Tim Robbins
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
- Tim Robbins
Collection: Liberty
Image of Cass Sunstein
There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.
- Cass Sunstein
Collection: Liberty
Image of Thomas Sowell
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Liberty
Image of William E. Simon
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
- William E. Simon
Collection: Liberty
Image of I. F. Stone
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
- I. F. Stone
Collection: Liberty
Image of William Blackstone
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.
- William Blackstone
Collection: Liberty
Image of Frank Murphy
Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.
- Frank Murphy
Collection: Liberty
Image of Alex Tabarrok
It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.
- Alex Tabarrok
Collection: Liberty
Image of Jesse Ventura
A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.
- Jesse Ventura
Collection: Liberty
Image of George Takei
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
- George Takei
Collection: Liberty
Image of Potter Stewart
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.
- Potter Stewart
Collection: Liberty
Image of Fausto Cercignani
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
- Fausto Cercignani
Collection: Liberty
Image of Hilaire Belloc
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
- Hilaire Belloc
Collection: Liberty
Image of Hilaire Belloc
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
- Hilaire Belloc
Collection: Liberty