222 quotes found
“Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.”
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would...”
“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majo...”
“I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.”
“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more for...”
“In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existen...”
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
“Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of liberty were they ...”
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”
“Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.”
“Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.”
“There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer because you have the liber...”
“When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.”
“Liberation begins with liberation of mind, soul and body.”
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”
“Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS”
“Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.”
“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government...”
“Liberty," boomed Wednesday, as they walked to the car, "is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses.”
