Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Neil Smith

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

P. J. O'Rourke

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

P. J. O'Rourke

Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.

Paul Singer

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Oscar Wilde

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Oscar Wilde

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

Lyman Beecher

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

Louis L'Amour

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

Herbert Marcuse

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

George Herbert

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

Frances Wright

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

George Washington

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

George Washington

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

George Washington

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

George Washington

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money is coined liberty.

Franz Kafka

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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.

Imran Khan

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

Neil Kinnock

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

John Tillotson

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

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!

Ted Cruz

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

Ted Cruz

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

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.

Max Stirner

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.