Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

He who opposes the public liberty overthrows his own.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them for a century.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Freedom taken for granted can be freedom taken away.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and for government to gain ground.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.

… the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.