Quotes About Freedom

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.