Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Frederic Bastiat

We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.

Cass Sunstein

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Chang-Rae Lee

I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

Benjamin Franklin

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

A. J. Muste

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Adam Smith

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

Ludwig von Mises

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

Ludwig von Mises

The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.

Ludwig von Mises

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Robert Jackson

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Cole Porter

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Eamon de Valera

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.