Quotes About Independence

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

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.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

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.

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

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

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.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.