Great Libertarian Quotes

Donal Blaney has gathered together some great quotes on civil liberties:

1. Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit is justice is no virtue (Barry Goldwater).

2. Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end (Lord Acton).

3. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too (Somerset Maugham).

4. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there no constitution, no law, no court can save it (Justice Learned Hand).

5. A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves (Edward R Murrow).

6. Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it (Thomas Paine).

7. Give me liberty or give me death! (Patrick Henry).

8. First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me (Pastor Father Niemoller).

9. I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man (Thomas Jefferson).

10. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves (William Pitt).