Freedom Quote by Amy Tan

“Many people could not understand that the idea of government is not to provide, the way parents provide for a child.”

— David Remnick

“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.”

— Marie Vieux-Chauvet

“Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.”

— Woodrow Wilson

“if the nation were to be stable, individual rights had to be exercised according to rules that all people could understand and trust.”

— Condoleezza Rice

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.”

— Elias Boudinot

“No government should be given too much power, or the people comprising that government will use the power in the worst ways possible; individual…

— Andrew Breitbart

“Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.”

— Brent Weeks

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

“Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.”

— Jean Tirole

“For individual freedom can come about only, can be conceived only, if there is some sense of security to life.”

— Russell Shorto

“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should…

— John Adams