Quotes on Liberty

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.