Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.
It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political government.
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