“And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”
Limited Freedom Quotes
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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
Source: Young Statesman
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”
Source: Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
Source: The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
Source: Ideas and Opinions
Source: Speaking of Abraham Lincoln
“Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.”
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
Source: Seventy Years of Life and Labour: An Autobiography
“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”
Source: The life of George Washington: commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Source: God in the Dock
“You can only be free if I am free.”
Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom