James Bovard Quotes about Liberty

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

James Bovard

Political, Liberty, Saving

James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons.

James Bovard

Law, America, Liberty

James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.6, St. Martin's Griffin

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

James Bovard

Average, Years, Liberty

James Bovard (1995). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.289, Palgrave Macmillan

The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?

James Bovard

Government, Liberty, Lists

James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.101, Macmillan

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

James Bovard

Government, Law, Liberty

James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.334, St. Martin's Griffin

Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.

James Bovard

Risk, Liberty, Today