liberty

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.