Browsing Topic Best America Freedom Quotes

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.

That government is best which governs least.

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It’s America, freedom of speech.

Time is the only thing you can’t buy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.

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.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

America is best described by one word, freedom.

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.

These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America’s resolve.

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

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

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.

You can only be free if I am free.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I’ve always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that’s what we’re supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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.

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

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

There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

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

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