D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

Be most on guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.

If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

Freedom is a personal experience; a free society is an association of free individuals, nothing else. Freedom consists simply in the absence of external restraints on thought and behavior. Yet, because the individual, in his efforts to improve upon his circumstances, not infrequently transgresses the equal freedom of his fellow man, restraint becomes a necessary condition of social living; it is the means of maintaining an equilibrium, or justice.

Prohibition is a deathblow to the liberty of the individual …

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

The liberal, emphasizing the civil and property rights of the individual, insists that the individual must remain so supreme as to make the state his servant.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must he the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim — and if they used both halves of their brains — then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.