Astonishing Quote by Jeffrey Tucker

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

— Lord Acton

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

— James Buchanan

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is…

— Samuel Johnson

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government…

— James Madison

Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant…

— Leonard Read

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

— Anonymous

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

— John Major

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to…

— Boris Yeltsin

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything…

— George Orwell