Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Aldous Huxley

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Aldous Huxley

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Alexander Hamilton

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

Adolf Hitler

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

A. J. Muste

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Adam Smith

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Eamon de Valera

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

Cole Porter

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Robert Jackson

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Ludwig von Mises

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Ludwig von Mises

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.

Ludwig von Mises

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

Albert J. Nock

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

Albert Camus

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Albert Camus

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Albert Camus

Liberty is dangerous.

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. H. Lawrence

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

D. H. Lawrence

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

D. H. Lawrence

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Alex Tabarrok

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

E. M. Forster

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Douglas MacArthur

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Donald T. Regan

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Daniel Webster

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Andre Breton

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Ambrose Bierce

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.