Quotes About Freedom

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.