7,738 Quotes About Freedom

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what is in my hand.

What will you do with all your newly found available time?

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing so. But I caution them with some examples. An orthopedist profits from your misfortune of having broken your leg skiing. When there's news of a pending ice storm, I doubt whether it saddens the hearts of those in the collision repair business. I also tell my students that I profit from their misfortune—their ignorance of economic theory.

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

There is nothing that exists outside or inside to punish us or take a note of every action of ours, but it’s our own understanding towards life, that allows us to experience, different pain and pleasures of life.