Quotes About Liberty

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

Be free to do what you want to... before the time is through.

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

Doubtless it will be a relief to be free of me and my troubles.

Those who argue with enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be demonized as being fond of despotic power and hostile to liberty.

Sometimes there are no rules.

Jo no desitjo que les dones tinguin poder sobre els homes, sinó sobre elles mateixes. - Mary Shelley

He chose for his hero a youth nourished in dreams of liberty, some of whose actions are in direct opposition to the opinions of the world, but who is animated throughout by an ardent love of virtue, and a resolution to confer the boons of political and intellectual freedom on his fellow-creatures. On Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam

It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit

But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge.

Friedrich Hayek's, with his prescient warning in The Road to Serfdom (1944) that socialism and fascism were not really opposites, but had 'fundamental similarity of methods and ideas', that economic planning and state control were at the top of an illiberal slope that led to tyranny, oppression and serfdom, and that the individualism of free markets was the true road to liberation. Ignoring

A free economy cannot exist without competition. Therefore, men must be forced to compete. Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.

No hay nada que pueda arrebatar a un hombre su libertad, salvo otros hombres.

When you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.

A free mind and a free economy are corollaries. One can't exist without the other.

there is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights.

for people who enjoyed their own presence well enough and sought only a place where they would be left free to enjoy it.