Walter Lippmann Quotes

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

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 individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.

Liberty is the Right of doing whatsoever the Laws allow

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

The individual is greater than the state.

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and free within his own sphere or cease to be an individual. The fundamental question ... is now, and always will be through what adjustments, by what actions, these principles may be applied.

our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas.

Arguably, the application of complete libertarianism leads one towards anarchy.

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.