Quotes About Freedom

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

Government is waging war against the people.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

There's never been a good government.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.