Quotes About Liberty

The less government we have the better.

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

If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

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.

You call it a 'loophole' when the government still allows you some freedom.

Good government has to mean less government.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.

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

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

Those are governed best who are governed least.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.