Don Willett Quotes

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

Freedom Party International believes that the purpose of government is to protect every individual's fundamental freedoms, not to restrict them.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

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.

Our devotion to individual freedom limits our readiness to give central government the power to override our traditional power structure.

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

You are born free. I was born free. The government can take your freedom away, but it did not give you your freedom. It was your human right. The key part of that is you are free first.

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.