Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-03-21 Mar 21, 2025It is a policeman’s duty to protect men from criminals -- criminals being those who seize wealth by force. It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not the protection, but the plunder of property -- then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.~ Ayn RandThe 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 MisesBefore a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.~ Noah Webster Mar 20, 2025Liberty, without wisdom, is license.~ Edmund BurkeLiberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books.~ Jimmy StewartIf a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.~ Marshall Field Mar 19, 2025I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things.~ CatoOur natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.~ Ronald ReaganConstitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.~ William Howard Taft Mar 18, 2025The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.~ Norval MorrisThe inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.~ Sir Winston ChurchillWe cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.~ William Faulkner Mar 17, 2025The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.~ Daniel WebsterLiberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.~ Earl WarrenLiberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.~ Fisher Ames Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print