Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." [ , Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (Decem...
Better to be a free dog than a caged lion.
Better to be a free bird than a captive king.
They are not free who drag their chains behind them.
Better a free bird than a king in captivity.
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.
In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.
People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.
Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
