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
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
'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
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 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
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
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
The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. .… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an… — John Stuart Mill 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
The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to… — Zachary Taylor 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
“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular… — Shelby Foote 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
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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 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
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
![“In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government], for the rights of every class of citizens, will be diminished: and consequently the stability and independence of some member of the government, the only…” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef0/james-madison-373_citizens_in-a-free-government-the-security-for-ci_2251086.png)
![“[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. [T]herefore education should teach the precepts of…” quote by Gouverneur Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e6/gouverneur-morris-26042_anarchy_f-or-avoiding-the-extremes-of-despotism_622195.png)
