Quotes About Freedom

I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

Government is best which governs least

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.