Ted Cruz Quotes

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

We must choose between freedom and fear – we cannot have both.

Democracy cannot flourish amid fear.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

No free subject ought to be under the least restraint in respect to accusing the greatest, so long as his accusation strikes only at the political conduct of the accused: his private we have no right to meddle with

The right to insult members of the government is inviolable.

The people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.

Freedom is the best antidote to terror.

I'm going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living, they need to have democracy, and it's being threatened.

I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans' records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they're both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

We can't live in a place of fear.

The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.

Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.

We're gonna get away from political correctness .