“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” — Patrick Henry
“A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The comparison of our governments with those of Europe are like a comparison of Heaven and Hell.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” — George Washington
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” — George Washington
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” — John Adams
“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.” — John Adams
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations…” — James Madison
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, …” — Abraham Lincoln
“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me… Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!” — Davy Crockett
“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” — Gideon John Tucker
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.” — Calvin Coolidge
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” — Pearl S. Buck
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” — Harry S Truman
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”– C.S. Lewis
“The best road to progress is freedom’s road.” — John F. Kennedy
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough.” — Milton Friedman
“Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).” — Ayn Rand
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” — Ronald Reagan
“Eventually socialism runs out of other peoples’ money.” — Margaret Thatcher
“It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.” — Garrison Keillor
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world, indeed, it is the only thing that ever has!” — Margaret Meade
“Inflation tears apart the whole fabric of stable economic relationships. It drives men toward desparate remedies. It leads men to demand totalitarian controls. It ends invariably in bitter disillusion and collapse.” — Henry Hazlitt, economist
