American people Quote by James Madison

It really is this: you are either for liberty, you're for freedom, and you're for living how you want to live without infringing and…

— Dave Rubin

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms;…

— Thomas Jefferson

... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation……

— Abraham Kuyper

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine…

— Oliver Ellsworth

... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption…

— James Madison

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

— Warren E. Burger

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises

In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick.…

— James F. Cooper

But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the…

— William O. Douglas

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the…

— James Madison

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open…

— Thomas Jefferson