Frederic Bastiat Quotes

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

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.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

… 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.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

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.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

As labor is free, so all are free.

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

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.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Freedom of choice and free speech without fear must be defended.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.