Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 1279 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.~ Tom Braun I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.~ Ashleigh Brilliant Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense.~ Norman O. Brown The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.~ Harry Browne A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry Browne We should never define libertarian positions in terms coined by liberals and conservatives, nor as some variant of their positions. We are not fiscally conservative and socially liberal. We are libertarians, who believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times.~ Harry Browne As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.~ Tammy Bruce Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.~ James Bryce I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth – matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.~ James Bryce Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen...~ Zbigniew Brzezinski None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.~ Edmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.~ Edmund Burke The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.~ Edmund Burke Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print