Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

Daniel Webster

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

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.

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

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Robert Jackson

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

David Hockney

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

Billy Sunday

Personal liberty is not personal license.

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.

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.

James Madison

Every word decides a question between power and liberty.

James Madison

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

James Madison

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

James Madison

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

James Larkin

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

John Garamendi

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

John Dewey

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Joan Miro

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Frank Chodorov

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Lord Acton

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime...

Lord Acton

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Edward Dahlberg

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Joseph Addison

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.

Jose Marti

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty and equality are magical words.