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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
There is no problem anywhere on the earth which cannot be solved better under Liberty than under any other system.
Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.
It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.
Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.