Quotes About Freedom

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?