Robert Duvall Quotes

If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

Prohibition is a deathblow to the liberty of the individual …

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.

In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Be most on guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

How far are we to go in pursuit of greater security at the cost of essential liberties?

People have rights and government must be kept from trampling on them.

Political liberty is good only so far as it produces private liberty.

The liberal, emphasizing the civil and property rights of the individual, insists that the individual must remain so supreme as to make the state his servant.

It doesn’t keep us safe and it doesn’t keep us free if we give up our liberties to the government.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

Our privacy, our rights as citizens - these are ideals that we Americans hold very dear.

I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.