The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hopelessness.