Demoralized Quote by Abraham Lincoln

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

— Garet Garrett

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

— Franz Grillparzer

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they…

— John Dickinson

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed…

— Harry Browne

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

— Rosa Parks

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support…

— Lysander Spooner

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

— Ayn Rand

People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy…

— Saul Alinsky

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another…

— Adrian Rogers

When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

— Margaret Thatcher

No free people in history very long maintained their political freedom after having once surrendered their industrial and commercial freedom.

— Robert La Folette