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The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

The era of big government is over.

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.

The forests have taught man liberty.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.