[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without…

A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in…

— John Tyler

“Whole villages of Muslims had been hacked to pieces by drunken Christian youth, and as foreigners, we should have been pulled out by the…

— Tony D'Souza

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…

— Thomas Jefferson

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts,…

— Ted Cruz

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the…

— Samuel Williams

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in…

— John Adams

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to…

— George Washington

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected…

— George Washington

By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually…

— Max Barry

It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed,…

— Calvin Coolidge

I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State…

— Stephen A. Douglas

“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is…

— Shelby Foote