Liberty Quotes - Page 5

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.