In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world...

What are you thinking?” he asks.I know Gage hates it when I cry – he is completely undone by the sight of tears – so I blink hard against the sting. “I’m thinking how thankful...

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing...

Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

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

I’m not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I’m scared of the thousands of millions of people that hallucinate them to be “authority”, and so do their bidding, and pay for...

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice…

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware...

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another world, nothing.Our fathers were intellectual serfs, and their fathers were slaves....

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate: only the unloved hate,...

I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one’s own small...

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned...

LIberty is slavery. Or, well, you already know. P.S. Can you find my logo in the image?

Either ‘the group’ is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power to ‘the group’ and then use violence to force individuals to obey the...

You see, Monsieur, it’s worth everything, isn’t it, to keep one’s intellectual liberty, not to enslave one’spowers of appreciation, one’s critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, andtook to so much...

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.

I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that’s what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty.

Hardy studied me for another long moment. A smile curled one corner of his mouth. ‘I can give you some pointers. Lord knows you couldn’t get any worse.’ ‘Mexicans can’t play basketball,’ I said. ‘I...

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there...

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

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.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public...

I’ve said it before, history repeats itself for those who don’t learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and...

Give me liberty or give me death.”[From a speech given at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in...

Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it...

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business…because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

The Pledge of Allegiance says ‘liberty and justice for all’. Which part of ‘all’ don’t you understand?

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

When I became convinced that the Universe is natural – that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood, the sense, the...

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.

Don’t oppress, don’t accept to be oppressed and you will live free.

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great – but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has...

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value.If all men are equal, then all men are of...

Vox populi vox Dei

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

Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?

A libertarian is someone who graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem.

The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chosen to be content with a small share of the riches...