Boundaries Quote by John C. Calhoun

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

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Woodrow Wilson

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator.…

— Ron Paul