Quotes on Limited Freedom

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.