Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

I have no idea what is in the Liberty portfolio.

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.

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.

Malcolm X

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

Malcolm X

It's liberty or death! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!

Malcolm X

Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

Mahatma Gandhi

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Mahatma Gandhi

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Mahatma Gandhi

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

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.

Lord Acton

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

Tamika Catchings

The Liberty have more size, with Baranova, Wauters and Christon. Between those three, they can pretty much switch everything because they all play the 3, 4, and 5.

H. L. Mencken

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

H. L. Mencken

A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

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.