Freedom Risk Quotes

Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both freedom and danger.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden of the public school curriculum to persuade children that their liberty is always secure.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

In every generation, a new threat to freedom arises.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.

A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians – risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has – is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.