Ronald Reagan Quotes

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

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.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

Liberty dies in the hearts of men and women: when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

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.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

Freedom taken for granted can be freedom taken away.

He who opposes the public liberty overthrows his own.

The human mind is ever oscillating between the extremes of authority and individualism; and if the former – the Catholic idea – finds lodgment in the minds of this people, we ring the death-knell of American liberties.

The notes of congratulations which this Senate sent across the Atlantic to the people of France on their deliverance from thraldom, have hardly ceased when the supremacy of mob-law and the destruction of freedom of the press are threatened in this capital of the Union.