Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
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.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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!
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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