Quotes About Freedom

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances are political prisoners

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.

That government is best which governs least.

Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.