No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson 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
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , May 19, 1821 }” — John Adams Copy Share Image
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” — Charles Slack 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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But… — Edmund Burke 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 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
“… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the… — Anonymous 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
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
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
... 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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