Common Quote by Bernard Crick

In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.

— Scott Pruitt

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

“If the whole community takes a decision, actors and interests are identical: they coincide. In the case of popular sovereignty the people are the…

— Leo Klinkers

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

— John Adams

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

— Sean Wilentz

Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other…

— Dale Jamieson

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

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and…

— Gerrard Winstanley

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

— Josh Hawley