Quotes About Government

The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.