Quotes About Freedom

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient.

No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.