2,103 Quotes About Liberty

"[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality."

"How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties."

"The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself."

"Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations."

"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility."

"One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits."

"One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain."

"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

"When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention."