Quotes About Government

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.