James Bovard Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

  James Bovard

  Law, America, Liberty

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.6, St. Martin's Griffin

• The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

  James Bovard

  Political, Liberty, Saving

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  James Bovard

  Humor, Two, Democracies Have

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin

• There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

  James Bovard

  Government, Law, Liberty

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.334, St. Martin's Griffin

• If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one of the most important-and most forgotten-bulwarks of freedom.

  James Bovard

  Government, Wish, Important

• Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.

  James Bovard

  Risk, Liberty, Today

• The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?

  James Bovard

  Government, Liberty, Lists

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.101, Macmillan

• Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.

  James Bovard

  Opportunity, Rights, Government

• The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

  James Bovard

  Average, Years, Liberty

  James Bovard (1995). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

• Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

  James Bovard

  Government, Political, Liberty

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