Quotes About Government

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

The government continues to erode our freedom.