The Courage to Be Free Quotes

“This collusion represents a way for the ruling class to achieve through the economy what it could never achieve through the ballot box.”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance

“But the American people did not deserve to be used as guinea pigs in some real-life experiment.”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance

“governor who is right on the issues, but who lacks the courage to lead, will be an inadequate chief executive.”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance

“While the bureaucracy is supposed to be politically neutral, it has become stridently partisan. When a Republican gets elected president, he makes several thousand political appointments, but the Democratic Party maintains control of the main apparatus of government: the massive federal administrative state.”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance

“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present—and is to be gravely regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system—ever aiming towards the supreme goals of our free society. —President Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Farewell Address,” January 17, 1961”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance

“Indeed, I think the character of the Florida migration is more emblematic of people wanting to see policies that reflect both the American tradition and basic common sense. This is especially true as the Democratic Party has transformed into what can only be described as a woke dumpster fire.”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance

“A firm understanding of the foundations of the American republic rests on a handful of basic ideas: that the source of our rights is our Creator, not the government; that the people delegate power to the government under a written constitution for the purpose of securing our natural, God-given rights; that the accumulation of centralized power is a threat to liberty and therefore power must be divided among competing branches of government; that each branch must be equipped with the wherewithal to defend itself against encroachments from the other branches; that ours is a government of laws, not a government of men; and that powers delegated to the federal government are few and defined, while the powers remaining among the states are numerous and indefinite.”
― Ron DeSantis, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival – A Political Memoir of Winning Leadership and Conservative Governance