Liberty

“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”

-William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Whether we like it or not, the American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. If we want to restore confidence in ourselves as working politicians, the first thing we all have to do is to learn to say no.”

-Gerald R. Ford

“Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.”

-Albert Camus

“The source of the government’s authority is ‘the consent of the governed.’ This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.”

-Ayn Rand

“We are concerned in this book with that condition of men in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society. This state we shall describe throughout as a state of liberty or freedom…The task of a policy of freedom must therefore be to minimize coercion or its harmful effects, even if it cannot eliminate it completely…Whether he is free or not does not depend on the range of choice but on whether he can expect to shape his course of action in accordance with his present intentions, or whether somebody else has power so to manipulate the conditions as to make him act in accordance to that person’s will rather than his own. Freedom thus presupposes that the individual has some assured private sphere, that there is some set of circumstances in his environment with which others cannot interfere.”

-F.A. Hayek

“If the result of individual liberty did not demonstrate that some manners of living are more successful than others, much of the case for it would vanish.”

-F.A. Hayek

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.”

-John Stuart Mill

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