One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?… — Alexander Hamilton 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
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree… — Brien McMahon Copy Share Image
In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The war has proved moreover that our free Government, like other free governments, though slow in its early movements, acquires in its… — James Madison Copy Share Image
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“country devoid of natural resources, but which enjoys peace, a fair judicial system and a free government is likely to receive a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate… When… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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