Ted Cruz Quotes

If you are living in a free society then use the freedom. What good is freedom if you do not use it.

There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

I am pro-freedom.

Ordinary Chinese can actually make choices about their own lives which wasn’t possible 25 years ago.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.

Liberty is a right which every individual must be ready to vindicate for himself, and which he who pretends to bestow as a favor, has by that very act in reality denied. Even political establishments, though they appear to be independent of the will and arbitration of men, cannot be relied on for the preservation of freedom; they may nourish, but should not supersede that firm and resolute spirit, with which the liberal mind is always prepared to resist indignities, and to refer its safety to itself.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

It's a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can't do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.