Quotes About Liberty

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

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.

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.

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.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg.

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.