Quotes about Freedom
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- James Madison
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.
- Ronald Reagan
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
- Harry S. Truman
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
- James Madison
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
- Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- James Madison
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
- Ronald Reagan
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.
- John Adams
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
- Dennis Prager