Top Liberty Quotes

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

We know how the people of Argentina ruined their country. We know how the people of Venezuela ruined their country. Few Americans know much about the history of Argentina or Venezuela. But if they wis...

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.

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 preserve the acceptance of...

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

If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freed...

Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most cr...

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to attach their followers to their own person. Liberalism has nothing to do with all...

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spir...

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by mys...

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.