Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1201-1220] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.~ Mark Van Doren That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, and a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and keep government free. The people ought, therefore, to pay particular attention to these points, in the choice of officers and representatives, and have a right to exact a due and constant regard to them, from their legislators and magistrates, in the making and executing such laws as are necessary for the good government of the State.~ Vermont Declaration of Rights The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.~ Richard A. Viguerie The rights enumerated in this Bill of Rights shall not be construed to limit other rights of the people not therein expressed.~ Virginia Declaration of Rights All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.~ Voltaire It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.~ Voltaire It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.~ Voltaire It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.~ Voltaire Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.~ Voltaire It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.~ Voltaire The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.~ Voltaire Liberty is not and cannot be anything but the power of doing what we will.~ Voltaire The superfluous is very necessary.~ Voltaire A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.~ Otto von Bismarck The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.~ Ludwig Von Mises Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.~ Ludwig von Mises The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.~ Ludwig von Mises The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.~ Ludwig Von Mises This, then, is freedom in the external life of man -- that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.~ Ludwig von Mises There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.~ William Von Raab Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print