Quotes About Freedom

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

The less government we have the better.

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.