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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we…
— John Boehner
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Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.
— Josiah Warren
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which…
— John Quincy Adams
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Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
— Calvin Coolidge
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I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?
— D. H. Lawrence
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The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians…
— Murray Rothbard
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The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost.…
— Harry Browne
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Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our…
— Harry Browne
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The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds…
— Don Kates
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While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
— Charles Evans Hughes
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