Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-09-12 Sep 12, 2025The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.~ General Douglas MacArthurIf this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.~ James MadisonThe liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.~ Patrick Henry Sep 11, 2025I think it might be important to point out that this country is a one-party country. Half of that party is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn’t make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.~ Hugh DownsIf Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.~ Joseph SobranIf you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.~ Thomas Sowell Sep 10, 2025Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonYou must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.~ Robert E. LeeIntellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Sep 9, 2025Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.~ John LockeThis, then, is freedom in the external life of man -- that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.~ Ludwig von MisesIt must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.~ Richard Henry Lee Sep 8, 2025All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.~ George MasonHe alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIndividuality is freedom lived.~ John Dos Passos Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print