Government Control Quotes

"I am personally against any kind of legislation that restricts individual freedoms." "The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people" "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home" "The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments" "The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency" "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." "In framing a government, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself"