Liberty Quotes - Page 6

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.