Quotes About Freedom

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.