Wayne LaPierre Quotes

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

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

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

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

I can’t allow the U. S. Government to destroy privacy and basic liberties.

Our fight isn't just about the Second Amendment, it's about preserving all our liberties - saving our constitutional heritage and protections for the future.

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.

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

I'm never going to beg for pardon for exercising fundamental rights.

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.

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.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

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.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

I feel that at any of our rights can be taken away at any moment.

Freedom of the press and of religious opinion should be inviolate.

The greatest threat to our freedom is an all powerful federal government.

My government will protect all liberties but one—the liberty to do away with other liberties.