You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think ‘how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?’.It’s incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was...

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty,...

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

For twenty-five years I’ve been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles...

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

There’s a school of thought today that rejects patriotism. People are made nervous by that intense allegiance to a country. They think it can only lead to war and bloodshed and that fights can be...

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light.

Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn’t that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn’t freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to...

Right isn’t always legal.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.

Now-a-days, men wear a fool’s cap, and call it a liberty cap.

When the media is controlled by people who runs the world, you are only going to get news that they want you to know. They will paint anther’s man country’s hero a tyrant, a dictator...

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this–that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

It’s very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you’re representing is often a crook.

Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated...

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top...

tribute.” Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of...

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong...

Liberty is worth paying for.

It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It...

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.

Some say it’s wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they’d support a law against doing so. But I caution them with some examples. An orthopedist profits from your...

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of...

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them...

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

Let us rejoice.

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must...

Democracy is the best revenge.

Peace, freedom and liberty!

should know that freedom is more important than being safe.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, ‘the plane’s hitting,’ and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the...

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order...

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

Freedom isn’t free. But there are some really great coupons if you know where to look. Buy one liberty, get the next one half off.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Ready yourselves!’ Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared.A great cry came from beyond the walls that were punctuated by musket blasts and Mullone readied himself...

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it...

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,...

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that’s a wonderful thing.

A world of Peace and liberty is my dream

The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but...

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.