Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. — Gouverneur Morris 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 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
Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse. — James Cook Copy Share Image
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin 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
The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of… — John Marshall 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,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they… — James Madison 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 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
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
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
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
Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the… — Learned Hand 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
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us, of proving that popular govenment is not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon 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
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough… — Thomas D 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
