Quotes about Freedom
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[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.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
Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.
— Max Lucado
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
— David O. McKay
Those are governed best who are governed least.
— Thomas Jefferson
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
— Abraham Lincoln