Herbert Spencer Quotes About Liberty
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The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
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I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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