Tee Grizzley Quotes

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish.

Conscription is the cemetery where every vestige of your liberty is to be buried.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away for expedients.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Who loseth his freedom, he loseth all.

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

He who opposes the public liberty overthrows his own.

We give up our liberties too casually [in emergencies and crises]

Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn’t stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband—it creeps up insidiously ... step by step …

The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Whenever you hear, “it’s for your own good” from the government, you are about to lose some money or freedom. Always!

It's sad that in the struggle for my country's freedom, I have lost my personal freedom.

Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.

When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.

The governor's not allowed to drive. That's part of the life you accept.

When a person go to jail, what people don't realize is you're alive, but you're dead to the world. People forget about you. When you go to jail, you're a story.

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote.