Quotes on Liberty

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.