Freedom Quote by James Madison

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without…

— Clinton Rossiter

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to…

— Boris Yeltsin

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

— Paul Ryan

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

— Margaret Thatcher

All government, of course, is against liberty.

— H. L. Mencken

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat…

— Margaret Thatcher

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

— Benjamin Rush

Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

— Roman Baldorioty de Castro

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises