Donald Trump Quotes

He who opposes the public liberty overthrows his own.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.

I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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

The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

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.

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.

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

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism –-- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

The price of freedom is less than the cost of repression.