Quotes About Freedom

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.