Tibor R. Machan Quotes

The genius of a free society is that its citizens have wide scope to pursue their own visions of the good without excessive hindrance by their fellow citizens.

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

In a free state there must be free speech. In libera civitate etiam linguas esse liberas.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

At first man was enslaved by the gods, but he broke their chains… Then he was enslaved by the kings, but he broke their chains… He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race, but he broke their chains... He declared to all his brothers that man has rights that neither god or king nor other men can take away from him no matter what their number. For his is the right of man. And there is no right on earth above this right

Every man is by … natural right, the master of his own thoughts

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

… it [liberty] denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home, bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of one's own conscience and generally, to enjoy those privileges long recognized in common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

… by a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbors, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free society. When any of those freedoms are threatened anywhere, they must be defended and protected everywhere.

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'

At the core of our American value system is individual freedom.

Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good heart and sound mind to find the right balance between the two.

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.