Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stott

God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

Tobias Smollett

Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!

Mercy Otis Warren

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Michael Shermer

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

Thaddeus Stevens

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Michele Bachmann

What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the shot heard round the world in Lexington and Concord.

Michele Bachmann

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

Michael Badnarik

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Rand Paul

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Rand Paul

There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?

Eric Hoffer

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

Eric Hoffer

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Eric Hoffer

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Henry A. Kissinger

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Henry Hazlitt

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

Henry Hazlitt

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Lisa Kleypas

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

John Stuart Mill

...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.

John Stuart Mill

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

John Stuart Mill

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

John Rawls

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

John Rawls

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

John Ray

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

James H. Douglas

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Friedrich August von Hayek

At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.

Friedrich August von Hayek

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Friedrich August von Hayek

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness.

Millard Fillmore

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.