The natural progress of things is for liberty 
to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

The history of liberty is the history of the 
limitations placed on the government.

Woodrow Wilson

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Thomas Paine

There are more instances of the abridgment 
of the freedom of the people by the gradual 
and silent encrochment of thse in power, 
than by violent and sudden usurpation.  

James Madison

They that can give up liberty to obtain 
a little temporary safety deserve neither 
liberty nor saftey.

Ben Franklin

Today we need a nation of Minutemen:
citizens who are not only prepared to take
arms, but citizens who regard the preservation
of freedom as the basic purpose of their
daily life and who are willing to consciously
work and sacrifice for that freedom.

John F Kennedy

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

A government big enough to give you
everything you want is a government big
enough to take from you everything you
have.

Gerald R. Ford

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

Barry Goldwater

The strongest reason for people to retain
the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last
resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
in government.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in
insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding.

Justice Louis Brandeis - 1928

Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from
the subjects of it.
This history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled
away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke 1899

We are fast approaching the stage in the
ultimate inversion: the stage where the
government is free to do anything it pleases,
while the citizens may act only by permission;
which is the stage of the darkest period 
of human history; the stage of rule by brute
force.

Ayn Rand

Democracy extends the sphere of individual
freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy
attaches all possible value to each man;
socialism make each man a mere agent, a
mere number. Democracy and socialism
have nothing in common but one word:
equality. But notice the difference: while
democracy seeks equality in liberty,
socialism seeks equality inrestraint and
servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To disarm the people is the best and most 
effectual way to enslave them.

George Mason

As government regulations grow slowly, we
become used to the harness. Habit is a
powerfull force, and we no longer feel as
intensely as we once would have the
constriction of our liberties that would have
been utterly intolerable a mere half century 
ago.

Judge Robert Bork


When the people fear their government, 
there is tyranny; when the government fears the 
people, there is liberty 

Thomas Jefferson


When liberty is taken away by force,
it can be restored by force. When it is
relinquished voluntarily by default, it can
never be recovered.

Dorothy Thompson

I would rather be exposed to the
inconveniences attending too much
liberty than those attending too small a degree
of it.

Thomas Jefferson

The only thing that saves us from 
bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient
bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene McCarthy

It is a cruel hoax to seek to persuade
the American people that the Bill of Rights
should be watered down in response to
rising crime rates.

Nicholas Katzenbach


Necessity is the plea for every
infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; 
it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

Do not critize your government when
out of the country. Never cease to do
so when at home.

Winston Churchill