Justin Trudeau Quotes

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Our political life is closed, and our freedoms usurped, and our people are oppressed, and fearful… if you don’t say what the ruler wants, you’re exiled beyond the sun.

The people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Most governments are designed for the purposes of oppression and personal ambition.

Dictators are as scared of books as they are of cannon.

The legislative and judicial powers are completely subordinated to the executive; the division of powers, the sovereignty of the States, the liberty of the common councils, and the rights of the citizens exist only in writing in our great charter; but, as a fact, it may almost be said that martial law constantly exists in Mexico

Only the checks put upon magistrates (government officials) make nations free; and only the want of such checks make them slaves. They are free, where their magistrates are confined within certain bounds set them by the people … And they are slaves, where the magistrates choose their own rules … and therefore most nations in the world are undone, and those nations only who bridle their governors do not wear chains

The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government. This fact is seen most prominently during revolutions and dictatorships, but it exists always and everywhere that the power of the government exists.

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

Soviet repression taught the Russians that hope and trust are dangerous, inimical, and treacherous

Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name.