Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted.
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people. . . What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. . . . what Africans need is personal liberty. . . [and] guarantees of private property rights and rule of law.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Maybe there was a time that you could count on the American home as being the moral fabric center and that they would teach you right, but with the liberty of just divorcing without a thought, it's horrible.
The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.
One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever it thrusts its finger into anything it does so in the most unfriendly way. Its essence is command and compulsion.