Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Someone has to speak up. It's a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

Michael Rosen

On the Statue of Liberty it says, 'Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor yearning for liberty' and that's why we're here.

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Ayn Rand

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Ayn Rand

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion.

Ayn Rand

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

Bertrand Russell

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

Benito Mussolini

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Benito Mussolini

Family - see Fascist State.

Benito Mussolini

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

Benito Mussolini

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Calvin Coolidge

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Calvin Coolidge

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Edward Snowden

Privacy is a function of liberty.

Archibald MacLeish

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game.

Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Edward Abbey

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life....

Alexandre Vinet

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Aleister Crowley

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Algernon Sidney

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.