Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [441-460] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.~ Sigmund Freud The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.~ David D. Friedman Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.~ Milton Friedman Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.~ Milton Friedman I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.~ Milton Friedman Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.~ Milton Friedman If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.~ Erich Fromm A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.~ Robert Frost English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.~ James Anthony Froude 19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.~ Rocco Galati I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~ Galileo Galilei The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.~ Albert Gallatin Freedom is not worth living if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that previous right.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.~ James A. Garfield Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. Garfield Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.~ William Lloyd Garrison We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.~ Daryl Gates The most efficacious method of dealing with deviancy is to ignore, to the furthest point of our tolerance, those items which we find offensive.~ Ilbert Geis Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print