Quotes About Freedom

Can the law -- which necessarily requires the use of force -- rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to extend it beyond this purpose without perverting it and, consequently, turning might against right.

What is freedom? It is the sum total of freedoms. To be free, under one's own responsibility, to think and act, to speak and write, to work and trade, to teach and learn, that alone is to be free.

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.

They need only to give up the idea of forcing us to acquiesce to their groups and series, their socialized projects, their free- credit banks, their Graeco-Roman concept of morality, and their commercial regulations. I ask

at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty. And

aquellos que quieren explotar, sin riesgo y sin escrúpulos, la Persona, la Libertad o la Propiedad de otros; ha convertido la Expoliación en Derecho, para protegerla, y la legítima defensa en crimen, para castigarla.

La gran desventura de Francia es la preferencia de la igualdad por encima de la libertad.   Alexis de Tocqueville.

And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own toil, to use it or exchange it as we see best. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.

the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For

The true and equitable law of humanity is the free exchange of service for service. Spoliation consists in destroying by force or by trickery the freedom of exchange, in order to receive a service without rendering one. Forcible spoliation is exercised thus: Wait till a man has produced something; then take it away from him by violence. It is solemnly condemned in the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not steal.

Be responsible for ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order. Count on it for no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for our faults, our negligence, our improvidence. Count only on ourselves for our subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral progress!

The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world?

Refuse to be a slave of anything on earth.

Men are free to choose whether they wish to live for God or against Him and therefore to opt for heaven or for hell. We must recognize that God has made everything to make man happy, and in accordance with this plan, God asks man to obey the laws that He has established; but God has also given man the ability to refuse this truth. This is the situation in which all of us are placed.

L'erreur est de vouloir une vie immobile. On veut que le temps s'arrête, que l'amour soit éternel, que rien ne meure jamais, pour se prélasser dans une perpétuelle enfance dorlotée. On bâtit des murs pour se protéger et ce sont ces murs qui un jour deviennent une prison. »

?i?u khó kh?n nh?t không ph?i là bi?t ???c t?i sao ta l?i s?ng, mà là thoát ???c kh?i câu h?i này.

J'ai rêvé d'être un électron libre mais on ne peut pas se couper éternellement de ses racines.

Müüre ehitatakse selleks, et end kaitsta, kuid ühel päeval saab neist müüridest vangla.

Der große Unterschied zwischen meinen Eltern und mir: In ihrer Jugend wurden die Freiheiten immer größer, in meiner wurden sie Jahr für Jahr immer kleiner.

Fuir le bonheur de peur qu'il ne se sauve.

Mesajul c?r?ii? (,,De veghe în lanul de secar?") Fie de conformezi stilului de via?? al clasei de mijloc, fie sfâr?e?ti la azil. Îcepând din 1951, orizontul spiritelor libere în sistemul capitalist este spitalul de psihiarie.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;