Liberty Quotes

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

When victimless crime laws are enforced, the State is the criminal and the one they call the criminal is the victim.

People tend to seek their own interest.

With a State, this is a serious problem.

In a free society, this is a serious asset.

In the last 75 years, hundreds of millions of people have been trying to vote their way to freedom.

Are we more or less free now?

Your mind can keep you chained too.

Be open to change.

Hold truth with open palms, let the winds whisk falsehood away.

To live in freedom, one must grow used to a life full of agitation, change and danger.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

“God grant that religious liberty may be preserved in these (United) states to the end of time, and that all who believe in the religion of Christ may practice the leading principle of charity, the basis of every other virtue.”

“Let us be clear: we value religious liberty not only because it protects our personal autonomy. We value religious liberty because of the good which religion brings into the life of the individual believer and into the life of our nation.

“We cherish true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the liberty to do what we ought.”

“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead

Once you start conflating terrorism and journalism, as a country I think you're in some trouble.

“When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three. Now, in the twilight of my life, misunderstanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time, once so disposable, are the fuels that drive me forward.”
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Puerto Rico will be the first half-and-half banana republic state incorporated that will secede from the union. Then will come Liberty Island, then Mississippi Burning, Texas BBQ, Kentucky Fried Chicken—all of them—New York Yankees, Jersey Devils—you name it—will want to break apart—and demand a separation—a divorce. Things will not go well for the banana republic when the shackles and chains of democracy break loose and unleash the dogs of war.

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Don't ever think you know what's right for the other person. He might start thinking he knows what's right for you.