Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion."

~ Justice Joseph Story  

"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."

~ L. Neil Smith  

"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward."

~ Patricia Sampson  

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

~ Albert Einstein  

"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours."

~ William James  

"The first great struggle for liberty was in the realm of thought. The libertarians reasoned that freedom of thought would be good for mankind; it would promote knowledge, and increased knowledge would advance civilization. But the authoritarians protested that freedom of thought would be dangerous, that people would think wrong, that a few were divinely appointed to think for the people."

~ Charles T. Sprading  

"An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal."

~ Emile Faguet  

"The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing."

~ Immanuel Kant  

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

~ Malcolm X  

"To change masters is not to be free."

~ Jose Marti y Perez  

"[A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton."

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley  

"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."

~ Sallust  

"Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche  

"Liberty is worth whatever the country is worth. It is by liberty that man has a country; it is by liberty he has rights."

~ Henry Giles

"Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind."

~ Henry Grady Weaver