Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is a policeman’s duty to protect men from criminals -- criminals being those who seize wealth by force. It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of property -- then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman."

~ Ayn Rand  

"The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty."

~ Ludwig Von Mises  

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States."

~ Noah Webster  

"Liberty, without wisdom, is license."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books."

~ Jimmy Stewart  

"If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise."

~ Marshall Field  

"I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things."

~ Cato  

"Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority."

~ William Howard Taft  

"The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and
our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other
distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the
criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare,
it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary
tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and
criminogenic."

~ Norval Morris  

"The inherent vice of capitalism is
the uneven division of blessings,
while the inherent virtue of socialism is
the equal division of misery."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"We cannot choose freedom
established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom,
on a caste system of equality like military rank.
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it."

~ William Faulkner  

"The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power."

~ Daniel Webster  

"Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world."

~ Earl Warren  

"Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent."

~ Fisher Ames