Rick Santorum Quotes

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

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.

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute.

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

Freedom does not mean license.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.