Quotes About Freedom

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?