Quotes About Liberty

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

Have the government get out of the way.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

The great object is that every man be armed.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

Wine makes all things possible.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.