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A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.

[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is more needed in democratic societies than in any other.'

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

All good things are wild and free.

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

All socialism involves slavery.

All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.

Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.

America is far and away superior to every other place on earth, in terms of lifestyles, liberty, and freedom. In terms of the human condition, there's no place like it.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.

Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.