Quotes on Liberty

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.