Quotes About Freedom

Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both

Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

Louca para ser livre'. Palavras mortas. Ninguém se liberta só com palavras.

And when God finally judges you, I hope He does Basing on the love you have given me Because i know you might be free. Mimi.D.

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.

that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement

Why did men get to leave when they didn't get what they wanted?

Men have choices that women don't.

people from islands are different. We have more freedom.

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things.

My family's dreams about a future unfettered by the limitations imposed by "who you know" and dependent only on "what you know" was possible only in this beautiful land. Their

which I would write on Sunday afternoons sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with no pants on.

The transmission was done. I was free. The dance was mine.

It is up to each of us to sing as we feel moved by the overall song of life.

It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose.

The freedom to choose and to change belongs to us.

Emperors uphold censorship, But extreme repression leads to extreme reaction. Individualists believe in freedom, But extreme expression leads to extreme reaction.

Duty is inevitable, but we need not saddle ourselves with extra responsibilities. Keep life simple. Give up as much as possible.

The rantings of mad people do not yield greater freedom.