Quotes About Freedom

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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