Liberty Quotes

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

The fruit of too much liberty is slavery.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.

We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.