Penn Jillette Quotes

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

Our nation's founding fathers carefully crafted a Bill of Rights - an articulation of personal liberties woven into the entire fabric of our free society. When any of those freedoms are threatened anywhere, they must be defended and protected everywhere.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must he the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

I strongly believe that we as a nation can be both secure and free.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

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

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

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

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

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

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.