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No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.

Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.

A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

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