"The road to freedom lies in beating back the state, so that individuals may regain freedom of association, dominion over property, the absolute right of self-defense; the right to hire, fire, and generally, associate at will. As a paleolibertarian, however, my idea of liberty is never propositional–it is not a deracinated principle, unmoored from the realities of history, hierarchy, biology, tradition, culture, values."
React to this quote
More by Ilana Mercer
See allResonant Thoughts
"It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Our choice was not easy and we had intense deliberations about themes, styles and genre of novels."
— Jeet Thayil"Upon their casting vote depends the question whether Britain is to continue its honourable career as a pion…"
— David Lloyd George"For my part I do not feel any great horror at the idea...of the possible establishment of a Republic in thi…"
— Joseph Chamberlain"Some time ago a most salutary sanction of our constitution was promulgated, which we now make doubly notewo…"
— Constantine the Great"Liberalism is really opposed to liberty. ... Modern liberalism in England as well as abroad, in America as …"
— John Dalberg-Acton"Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and to separate functions, whereas tribal man has freely ext…"
— Marshall McLuhan
