Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

~ Carl Gustav Jung  

"A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to,
and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind,
however angular, however rasping, however, socially unpleasant it may be;
for it is upon such minds in large measure, that the effective search
for truth depends."

~ Caryl Parker Haskins  

"The individual is the true reality of life.
A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State,
nor for that abstraction called 'society,' or the 'nation,'
which is only a collection of individuals."

~ Emma Goldman  

"America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"Freedom for supporters of the government only,
for members of one party only --
no matter how big its membership may be -- is no freedom at all.
Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently."

~ Rosa Luxemburg  

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

~ Frank Herbert  

"The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force."

~ Ayn Rand  

"I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution."

~ Harry Browne  

"Society is produced by our wants,
and government by our wickedness."

~ Thomas Paine  

"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration
of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals...
It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and
which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."

~ Albert Gallatin  

"Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe,
and forbid men to say or write anything
against this or that opinion,
are often passed to gratify, or rather
to appease the anger of those
who cannot abide independent minds."

~ Baruch Spinoza  

"Freedom is not a fixed and possessed thing.
It is a quality of life.
And like action itself,
it is something experienced
only by individuals."

~ Neil A. McDonald  

"I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for,
but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?"

~ D. H. Lawrence  

"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in
some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....
Self-government means self-reliance."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth, -- the result of free individual action, energy, and independence."

~ Samuel Smiles