Liberty Quotes - Page 8

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  Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  Barry Goldwater

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Gay

  Speech accepting nomination for president at Republican National Convention, San Francisco, Cal., 16 July 1964

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• Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

  Diane Nash

  Motivational, Leadership, Freedom

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• The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  America, World, Lasts

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.45, Modern Library

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• Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory.

  James Lankford

  Crush, Insane, Immigration

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• We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

  William Hazlitt

  Temptation, Libertarian, Prohibition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

  John Locke

  Self Esteem, Philosophical, Men

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.289, CUP Archive

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• It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Responsibility, Law, People

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• Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Rights, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

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• Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

  James Carriger Paine

  Libertarian Party, Alcohol, Drug

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• I can spend your money better than you can.

  William J. Clinton

  Libertarian, Better Than You, I Can

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• If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Men, World, Libertarian

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Rights, Government, Libertarian

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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

  Business, Invisible Hand, Government

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 2 (1776)

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  If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines

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• Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Law, Libertarian

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• A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

  Albert Einstein

  Deception, Poison, Libertarian

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  Ouida

  Law, Libertarian, Crime

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida

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• Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

  Bernard Baruch

  Disappointment, Freedom, Keeping Promises

  In Meyer Berger New York (1960)

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• I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Desire, Libertarian

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• However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

  Herbert Spencer

  Rights, Minorities, Libertarian

  Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

  George W. Bush

  Morning, September 11, Coward

  9/11 Remarks at Barksdale Air Force Base, delivered 11 September, 2001, Barksdale, Louisiana

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• So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Long, People, Giving

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Competition, Stronger, Progress

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

  Herbert Spencer

  Benefits, Libertarian, Members

  "The Principles of Sociology".

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