George W. Bush Quotes

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

One of the problems of living in a free country is that you have free access to everything.

What people do in their private lives, these are not big issues that our country's dealing with.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

The Second Amendment is in the Constitution to help citizens protect themselves from people like Senator Dianne Feinstein who would come along, and if they could determine what words you can and cannot say, where and where you can't say them. The Constitution is there to protect you from mayors like Mike Doomberg who wants to tell you how big your beverage can be.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

You liberals are going to have to understand something: I'm not the one that wants to put limits on anybody. You people are.

Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

Little liberties are great offenses.

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

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.

It’s not illegal to be an asshole. It’s not illegal to be racist, even. It’s not illegal to do anything.

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.