Quotes About Government

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.