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Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin. Bankruptcies and losses concentrate the mind on prudent behavior.
American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.
How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.
Collective action remains the best way of renewing the march towards the great trinity of liberty, equality, and solidarity.
To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
If you live in a global world and you want to champion liberty in it, then you have you got to sign up to that global world.
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.
It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.