Quotes About Liberty

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

I am for the First Amendment from the first word to the last. I believe it means what it says.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

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

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

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

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

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

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