Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

Prohibition is a deathblow to the liberty of the individual …

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm—as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.

If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The liberal, emphasizing the civil and property rights of the individual, insists that the individual must remain so supreme as to make the state his servant.