Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Robert Jackson

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

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.

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.

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.

David Hockney

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

Algernon Sidney

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

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.