Top Liberty Quotes

You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Liberty Definition

(n.) The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.

(n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.

(n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.

(n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.

(n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised.

(n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.

(n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.

(n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.

(n.) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.

(n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.

The problems on campus life today are not about free speech. They are about how the students have absolutely nothing to do with their lives but sit and listen to lectures, find the best parties to att...

There is nothing virtuous or noble about being "tolerant" of people whose attitudes and behaviors you approve of. If you don't defend the freedom of even those individuals whose attitudes and behavior...

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

While liberals are in favor of any sexual activity engaged in by two consenting adults, when these consenting adults engage in trade or exchange, the liberals step in to harass, cripple, restrict, or...

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the str...

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll ma...

Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the fund...

Sweetest of all is liberty. This we have chosen and this we pay for. We have embraced the laws of Lykurgus, and they are stern laws. They have schooled us to scorn the life of leisure, which this rich...

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-...

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Freedom is the inherent state of nature. A bird is free until you clip its wings and put it in a cage. Just because you pick up its shit, give it food and water, and let it do as it pleases within the...

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.