Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the...

Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of those who threaten it.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions...

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

the government.” They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved. They are so divorced from their own interests that even when...

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

The executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them to follow ministers and ministers’ rivals, by persuading them to support...

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not...

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak.

If there be such a principle as justice, or natural law, it is the principle, or law, that tells us what rights were given to every human being at his birth; what rights are, therefore,...

Are you on a verge of finding the meaning to your life.The simplest task attempted and a bombastic result. Create a ripple of hope into the stagnant water of others life, stand up for an...

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

Interior liberty is universal.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.(From Slave)

‎”For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can’t help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me,...

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What...

There’s a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they’re leftists.

In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existentialist ethics. Every...

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to...

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.(1778 – 1830)

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that...

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, “Merry Mas,” where Christ will be taken out of its context.

I’d left them because I’d loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people...

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow or even the alteration of the existing social order but the...

I would entertain the apparently fading idea that patriotism that serves the self is greed dressed in the garments of liberty and adorned with the fashion accessories of other associated patriotic notions.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

Self-condemnation means speaking against one’s own success. If can’t stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.

I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or...

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries...

As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry....

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”[Whitney v. California, 274...

Burke’s admonition–“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”–never seems to have occurred to...

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

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

Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the people who elected a tyrant like you or let the country rise phoenix-like...