Liberty Quotes - Page 17

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.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.

Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for
individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be
protected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

- Government -
Free Shit for Idiots

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service.

I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.

Bureaucrats complicate. It gives them more work to do. It gives them job security. It means promotions as ever more bureaucrats are added to the Ministry of Redundancy.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them."

[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]