Quotes About Independence

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

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

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

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

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

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

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.

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

I don't bow down to the federal government.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

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