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
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
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it… — George Washington 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
I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government… — John Adams 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
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
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
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself. — H. L. Mencken 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
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this… — James Russell Lowell 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
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
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris 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
[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of… — Gouverneur Morris 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
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison Copy Share Image
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland 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
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
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