Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of…

I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even…

— John James Cowperthwaite

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

— Paulo Coelho

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

— Amity Shlaes

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than…

— Colin Powell

“Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends a message that…

— Michael Newdow

We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed…

— Nat Hentoff

When any nation mistrusts it's citizens with guns, it's sending a clear message. It no longer trusts it's citizens because such a government has…

— George Washington

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

— Thomas Jefferson

The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and…

— Jesse Ventura

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

— Koichiro Matsuura

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be…

— Paul Wellstone

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

— John F. Kennedy

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

— Edward Abbey

“In a society where people have the status of "free citizens," it is important to ensure that all people have the same rights and…

— Maitreya Maitreyan