Quotes About Liberty

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.