The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been...

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Even though we don’t know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any of them is enough to make us mistrustful of all of...

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or ‘objectify’ them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse...

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an...

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

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Riches I hold in light esteem,And love I laugh to scorn,And lust of fame was but a dreamThat vanished with the morn.And if I pray, the only prayerThat moves my lips for meIs, ‘Leave the...

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

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

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any...

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the...

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component of a liberty. Part of citizenship in a free society is the expectation...

The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with...

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious...

The Fathers intent desire is that none would ‘perish’. The promise God has given us is one of ‘liberation’- Freedom. Being set free “from” captivity and reconciled “to” your Father. Intimacy with Jesus garners son-ship...

They [Nazi captors] had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

I know not what discoveries, what inventions, what thoughts may leap from the brain of the world. I know not what garments of glory may be woven by the years to come. I cannot dream...

learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm...

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except...

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available,...

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law.

If you kill, kidnap & rape your opponents claiming that you’re fighting the terrorist that is not exist!Soon it’ll be existing as you’re sowing it!Miserable Egypt!

Someone has to speak up. It’s a serious subject because really the subject is liberty.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into...

There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe as we do. But their ignorance prevents them…we must bear patiently with these people and not...

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned...

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable...

In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land (“the public domain”),...

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

We as human beings need freedom, and justice, and a true cause to engage in to make life meaningful. This basic and comprehensive dream cannot be allowed to be shattered under any circumstances; if it...

Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us...