Liberty Quotes - Page 13

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

They fancied
themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

When people encounter the free market and they recoil or react negatively to it, they're merely confessing that voluntaryism, trade and negotiation are foreign and threatening to them, which tells you everything about how tragically they were raised.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within-not without. It is each man's own affair.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

N'importe quel groupe de scélérats, pourvu qu’ils aient assez d'argent pour l'entreprendre, peuvent décider qu'ils sont un gouvernement; car, pourvu qu'ils aient de l'argent, ils peuvent engager des soldats, et utiliser ces soldats pour extorquer davantage d'argent, et ainsi contraindre tout le monde à obéir à leurs volontés.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss - the abyss from which there is no return.