America Freedom Quotes

While lawyers are arguing about the PATRIOT Act or the America Freedom Act, the point is, the terrorists have moved on, the technologists have moved on, and we, the United States of America, are not taking advantage of the latest and greatest in technology the terrorists are. We need to get smart about it.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

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.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

That government is best which governs least.

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

You can only be free if I am free.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.