As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; – the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
Responsibility is the price of freedom.