Free government Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but…

— James Madison

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

— Dalai Lama

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant…

— Ayn Rand

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

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

— David Rockefeller

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

— Aristotle

In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

— Edward Bernays

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

— Kwame Nkrumah

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator…

— Aristotle

There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free,…

— John Adams

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of…

— Milton Friedman