Herbert Spencer Liberty Quotations

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.

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.

All socialism involves slavery.

Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.