Liberty Quotes - Page 67

Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.