When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that...

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that’s not of your choosing simply because you’re out-voted

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people… There is no king or queen bee...

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...

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

July 4, the day we celebrate giving our political masters independence from conscience, morality, consequences for evil doing, and basic social and economic reality.The fireworks are the glowing tears of your children’s incinerated futures.Cheer happy...

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

…So we passed, handcuffed and in silence, through the streets of Washington, through the Captial of a nation, whose theory of government, we are told, rests on the foundation of man’s inalienable right to life,...

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

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.

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes,...

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

It’s important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

guardian of freedom and the American way of life.

A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Treat all men alike…. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who...

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is,...

Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different...

People are more willing to support the exercise of authority over themselves when they believe it to be an objective, neutral feature of the natural world. This was the idea behind the concept of the...

Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business...

Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justified by allowable self-preference, is a subject of moral disapprobation for that...

Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on “society’s” jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to...

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

A nanny state is hostile to liberty. Any attempt to institute or continue it should be opposed, root and branch. Government intervention is never the solution; it is always part of the problem.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact.

Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

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...

It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe...

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...