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Quotes About Freedom

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
~ David O. McKay
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
~ Isabel Paterson
In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.
~ Narendra Modi
Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.
~ Virender Sehwag
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
~ L. Neil Smith
I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.
~ Lakhdar Boumediene
Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.
~ Ron Paul
Government governed least is government governed best.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
~ Steven Van Zandt
I think that [there is] this fundamental right to privacy and the philosophy that government shouldn't be intrusive.
~ Tim Cook
More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
~ Todd Akin
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
~ Lysander Spooner
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
~ Lysander Spooner
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
~ Lysander Spooner
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances.
~ Marc Rotenberg
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
~ William Weld
The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.
~ Michael Anti
The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our government becomes tyrannical
~ Sharron Angle
Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.
~ Michael Bloomberg
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
~ Michael Newdow
Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
~ Vladimir Putin