It easy to know whence arises among peoples their affection for the free way of life, for experience shows that cities have never expanded either in dominion or in riches if they have not had freedom.

The end of Law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom: for in all the states of created beings capable of Laws, where there is no Law, there is no Freedom.

As good kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. There are some who may believe themselves masters of others, and are no less enslaved than they. How has this change come about?

Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government.

Even the most free and self-reliant of men is hindered in his development, when set in a monotonous situation.

It is not to happiness alone, it is to self-development that our destiny calls us; and political liberty is the most powerful, the most effective means of self-development that heaven has given us.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

Once again, though we may insist on the rights of the individual, the social value of the corporation, or quasi-corporation, like the Trade Union, cannot be ignored.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

It is only too obvious that that it is irrationalism and not rationalism that has the responsibility for all national hostility and aggression.

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

If liberalism has a future, it is in giving up the search for a rational consensus on the best way of life.