A common American error is to believe that freedom is the…

“When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.”

— Timothy Snyder

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

— Rick Perlstein

I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a…

— Adolf Hitler

State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If…

— Adolf Hitler

“Once it’s handed off to the local companies that transmit electricity to the local consumers, no federal regulations apply. At that point, it’s under…

— Ted Koppel

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom,…

— Frank Chodorov

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

— DeRay Mckesson

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

— Kristin Armstrong

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

— Wole Soyinka

“We will never arrive to the notion of total freedom, that is, the absence of cause”

— Leo Tolstoy

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. Je Suis Charlie.

— Anonymous

“Freedom is the absence of influence.”

— Hugo Embleton-Black

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is…

— Aldous Huxley

“Freedom, then, is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate…

— Anonymous

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

— George Will