liberty principle Quotes

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual.

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

And since our country's founding, we've tried to keep government's heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

As the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women.

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

... as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few [women] have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

I'm a principle liberty, rule-of-law Conservative.

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

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.