Chris Long Quotes

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

The human mind is ever oscillating between the extremes of authority and individualism; and if the former – the Catholic idea – finds lodgment in the minds of this people, we ring the death-knell of American liberties.

I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

Why is freedom such a hard sell? That's the question. In this country, why has the idea of individual liberty and responsibility become such a hard sell? That's something I never thought would happen here.

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism –-- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

The strength of this nation is weakened more by those who suppress the freedom of others than by those who are allowed freely to think and act as their consciences dictate.

No man is good enough to govern another without the other man's consent. I say this is the leading principle, the sheet anchor of American republicanism. … the just powers of governments are derived from the consent of the governed.

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.

I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

… by a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbors, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

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

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.