Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-03-12 Mar 12, 2025Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.~ Friedrich August von HayekIf liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.~ George Stillman HillardUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison ... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.~ Henry David Thoreau Mar 11, 2025The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.~ George WillLiberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.~ Giuseppe MazziniThe literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.~ Harriet Beecher Stowe Mar 10, 2025We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.~ E. M. ForsterLaws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank HerbertThe attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.~ Joseph Sobran Mar 7, 2025The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.~ David D. FriedmanWhen liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.~ Dorothy ThompsonFreedom has never been free. Sometimes it costs everything you've got.~ Eric Schaub Mar 6, 2025The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.~ Alexander ChaseThe love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.~ Bishop Joseph ButlerPolitical correctness is simply tyranny with manners.~ Charlton Heston Mar 5, 2025Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.~ Charles SumnerI believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.~ H. L. MenckenYou must believe in free will; there is no choice.~ Isaac Bashevis Singer Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print