After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. — James Madison Copy Share Image
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the 'application layer' of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits. — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“For my own part,” the president began, “I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us,… — Adam Goodheart Copy Share Image
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
You are born free. I was born free. The government can take your freedom away, but it did not give you your… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
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