Katharine Gun Quotes

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Enemy of the People

I'm tired of living in a police state.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take away those freedoms, often start with an attack on the freedom to disagree.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

When the FBI adopts the tactics of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo, it's time for the Director no longer to be the Director.

In a society where the individual is not free to pursue the truth, … there is neither progress, stability, nor security.

Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers.

We are going through a fascistic time..

Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.

'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.

In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.

Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

If you were a real fascistic society and you had a vocal minority that was shouting, "Stop this, stop that, stop the other thing," what you would say is, "Let's give them all the drugs they want." In a lot of states, something very much like that happened. They lowered the drinking age to eighteen and said, "Get juiced."

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.