#Liberty

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

"Liberty a word without which all other words are vain."

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

"The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life."

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

"A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…"

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."

"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 majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power."

"If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny."

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

"I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit."

"The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it."

"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."

"We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it."

"...for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works."

"To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government"