Quotes About Freedom

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.