Freedom Loss Quotes

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master.

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other fastened about his own neck.

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will loose its freedom.

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.