Freedom Quote by Alf Landon Download Open image “A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.” — Alf Landon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Government Guarantees Minorities Politics Proportion Rights
We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity… — 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 not free,… — Lysander Spooner 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 an absurdity.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing… — Alf Landon Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
