Monday, December 30, 2013

Liberty Quotes- Charles Alan Murray, Edmund Burke, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"We believe that human happiness requires freedom
and that freedom requires limited government."
-- Charles Alan Murray
(1943-) American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit
Source: What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation (New York: Broadway Books, 1997), p. xi
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Charles.Murray.Quote.6534


"The great inlet by which a colour for oppression
has entered into the world is by one man's pretending
to determine concerning the happiness of another."
-- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
Source: quoted by Lord Acton in Lectures on the French Revolution (London: 1910), in J. Rufus Fears (Ed.), Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol. 1: Essays in the History of Liberty (Indianapolis: LibertyClassics, 1985), p. 206.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edmund.Burke.Quote.5EE9


"Personal liberty is the paramount essential
to human dignity and human happiness."
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(1803-1873)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edward.G..Bulwer-Lytton.Quote.8E29


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