liberty

Freedom of the mind is the most important liberty we have. Our belief in God__ grace gives us that freedom.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Americans are artisans in freedom.

I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, _ go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, __n such and such circumstances, what would you do?_, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes, truth from the Hebrew Christian Bible has enabled individual liberty to prevail over secular empires because it is a practical message about reality from man__ Creator. In their quest for liberty, Americans focused upon the conspicuously self-evident __aws of Nature and of Nature__ God._ It is the governing character of these principles (laws), such as humility, the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments, that leads to success. This is the sure foundation upon which man__ right to __ife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness_ rests. Called __irtue_ by America__ Founding Fathers, the impartial and divine element frees man to do what is right. __here the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty_ (2 Cor. 3:17).

These observations bring out the fact that, whenever liberty is regarded merely as the power to do something which it is desired to do, the tyrant need only base himself on the desires of the masses to suppress the liberties cherished by a few. But can anyone fail to see that the very concrete problem here posed is the problem of the sation of satisfactions, and not the problem of liberty at all? How, then, has it come about that we have drifted away from what we were discussing? This is the very definition of liberty which we allowed as our starting-point. Its development makes it clear that the thing discussed does not merit the fair name of liberty.It is certain that every man desires addition to his power and chafes at the obstacles which stand in his way; it is also certain that the quest for a power which is wider binds him to a growing dependence on other men; it is certain, lastly, that this dependence creates a growing tendency to quarrel about distribution. All that is important, but it is the story not of liberty but of human imperialism. And whoever thinks to see the essence of liberty in the power of man is is utterly lacking in any true feeling for liberty.

Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's" jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to make restitution to the victim of his crime. The present system, in which the victim is not recompensed but instead has to pay taxes to support the incarceration of his own attacker _ would be evident nonsense in a world that focuses on the defense of property rights and therefore on the victim of crime.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.