Malcolm Wallop Quotes

The government continues to erode our freedom.

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

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

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

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

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

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.

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

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

Martial law ... destroys every guarantee of the Constitution.

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.

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

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

Democracy is better than tyranny.

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.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.

Fear is a dangerous thing. Once it is sanctioned by the state there is no telling where it might lead. It is always a short path to walk from being suspicious of our fellow citizens to taking actions to restrict their liberty.

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

In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.

The authoritarian one believed that an individual's rights were basically provided by governments and were determined by states. The other society - ours - tended to believe that a large portion of our rights were inherent and couldn't be abrogated by governments, even if this seemed necessary.

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

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.