Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Schneier

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Frederic Bastiat

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Frederic Bastiat

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

Frederic Bastiat

The plans differ; the planners are all alike...

Frederic Bastiat

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

Frederic Bastiat

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Frederic Bastiat

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Frederic Bastiat

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

Dennis Chavez

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

Edward Gibbon

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

William Shakespeare

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.

Charles Dickens

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

Charles Spurgeon

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Chang-Rae Lee

I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

Charles Fourier

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

William Shakespeare

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Bertrand Russell

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Cass Sunstein

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Billy Sunday

Personal liberty is not personal license.

It will also move people to Crosby, Dayton, Liberty and Beaumont like it was originally designed.

Berthold Auerbach

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

Dalai Lama

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Imran Khan

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

Hanoi Hannah

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.

Harry Browne

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

I have no idea what is in the Liberty portfolio.

Orson Scott Card

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

These Liberty girls, they don't have sex, but you can always play in the mud!!