David Allan Coe Quotes

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

I have no power, no independence.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Empire and liberty.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

Liberty has its roots in blood.

For what avail the plough or sail, / Or Land or life, if freedom fail?

The bounty you must pay for freedom is to give the strength of your arms to put down tyranny. One short hour will deliver our country from the oppressor; and freedom in religion, peace and tranquility, equal laws and an improved country will be the prize.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

This hand to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.

The Almighty provided us with such a powerful sense of dignity that we cannot tolerate the denial of our inalienable rights and freedoms, no matter what real or supposed benefits are provided by “stable” authoritarian regimes.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.