Cool Quotes on Freedom & Liberty

A government big enough to give you everything you need, is strong enough to take everything you have. --Thomas Jefferson 

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.  -- James Madison 

The Constitution gives people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it for yourself. --Benjamin Franklin 

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. --James Madison 

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin 

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.  Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!  -- Benjamin Franklin 

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. --Thomas Paine 

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.  -- Thomas Jefferson 

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson 

All tyranny needs to gain a good foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. --Thomas Jefferson 

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. --Thomas Jefferson 

Most bad government has grown from too much government. --Thomas Jefferson 

We are all born ignorant, but must work to remain stupid. --Benjamin Franklin 

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world to do.  I know, because I've done it a thousand times.  --Mark Twain 

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

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. --Benjamin Franklin 

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.  I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. --Ronald Reagan 

The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent peaceable men from owning their own guns. --Samuel Adams 

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. --Benjamin Franklin 

I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery. --Thomas Jefferson 

The tree of liberty must be refreshed every now and then with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  --Thomas Jefferson 

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.  They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. --Thomas Jefferson