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Image of D. A. Carson
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
- D. A. Carson
Collection: Liberty
Image of G. Edward Griffin
The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.
- G. Edward Griffin
Collection: Liberty
Image of Voltairine de Cleyre
Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.
- Voltairine de Cleyre
Collection: Liberty
Image of Llewellyn Rockwell
Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
- Llewellyn Rockwell
Collection: Liberty
Image of Giacomo Casanova
I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.
- Giacomo Casanova
Collection: Liberty
Image of William Henry Chamberlin
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.
- William Henry Chamberlin
Collection: Liberty
Image of Lawrence Reed
Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times.
- Lawrence Reed
Collection: Liberty
Image of Samuel West
Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.
- Samuel West
Collection: Liberty
Image of F. A. Harper
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."
- F. A. Harper
Collection: Liberty
Image of Tammy Bruce
As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.
- Tammy Bruce
Collection: Liberty
Image of Eugene McCarthy
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy
Collection: Liberty
Image of Eugene McCarthy
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
- Eugene McCarthy
Collection: Liberty
Image of Florence Ellinwood Allen
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
- Florence Ellinwood Allen
Collection: Liberty
Image of Neil Kinnock
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
- Neil Kinnock
Collection: Liberty
Image of J. Stalin
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
- J. Stalin
Collection: Liberty
Image of Francis Galton
Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.
- Francis Galton
Collection: Liberty
Image of Stewart Dalzell
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
- Stewart Dalzell
Collection: Liberty
Image of Fanny Burney
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
- Fanny Burney
Collection: Liberty
Image of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Hospers
If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.
- John Hospers
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Henry Mackay
I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.
- John Henry Mackay
Collection: Liberty
Image of Jonathan Mayhew
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
- Jonathan Mayhew
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Cotton
Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.
- John Cotton
Collection: Liberty
Image of A. J. Muste
In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.
- A. J. Muste
Collection: Liberty
Image of Giannina Braschi
What is liberty? The measure of dignity.
- Giannina Braschi
Collection: Liberty
Image of Salvador de Madariaga
Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Collection: Liberty
Image of Edmund Burke
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
- Edmund Burke
Collection: Liberty
Image of Murasaki Shikibu
One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome
- Murasaki Shikibu
Collection: Liberty
Image of Robert Higgs
All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.
- Robert Higgs
Collection: Liberty
Image of Edward V. Long
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenseless citizens.
- Edward V. Long
Collection: Liberty
Image of Francois Guizot
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
- Francois Guizot
Collection: Liberty
Image of George Roche III
Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.
- George Roche III
Collection: Liberty
Image of Charles Fourier
It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.
- Charles Fourier
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Longenecker
There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.
- John Longenecker
Collection: Liberty
Image of Mathilde Blind
Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.
- Mathilde Blind
Collection: Liberty
Image of John Winthrop
A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.
- John Winthrop
Collection: Liberty
Image of Donald J. Boudreaux
Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.
- Donald J. Boudreaux
Collection: Liberty
Image of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Collection: Liberty
Image of Harold Laski
Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.
- Harold Laski
Collection: Liberty
Image of Andrew Joseph Galambos
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.
- Andrew Joseph Galambos
Collection: Liberty
Image of William J. Clinton
I can spend your money better than you can.
- William J. Clinton
Collection: Liberty
Image of Lewis Goldberg
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
- Lewis Goldberg
Collection: Liberty
Image of Edwin Feulner
It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.
- Edwin Feulner
Collection: Liberty
Image of Hanoi Hannah
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
- Hanoi Hannah
Collection: Liberty
Image of Hugo Grotius
Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.
- Hugo Grotius
Collection: Liberty
Image of Frank Chodorov
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
- Frank Chodorov
Collection: Liberty
Image of Harry Browne
Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
- Harry Browne
Collection: Liberty
Image of Robert H. Jackson
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.
- Robert H. Jackson
Collection: Liberty
Image of Emile Faguet
An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.
- Emile Faguet
Collection: Liberty