Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn vos Savant

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

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.

John Winthrop

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

John Ruskin

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Quincy Adams

Individual liberty is individual power.

John Owen

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

John Milton

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

Norm MacDonald

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

Nolan Bushnell

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

Michael Sandel

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

Mark Twain

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

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.

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.

Margaret Thatcher

If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Mark Twain

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Mark Twain

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Marquis de Lafayette

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.

Mary McCarthy

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Murray Rothbard

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Murray Rothbard

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

Murray Rothbard

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

Murray Rothbard

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Murray Rothbard

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray Rothbard

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

Milton Friedman

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

Milton Friedman

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

Milton Friedman

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

Milton Friedman

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

Milton Friedman

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

Milton Friedman

A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.