Contribution Quote by Calvin Coolidge

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties,…

— James Madison

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for…

— John C. Calhoun

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

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

— Andrew Jackson

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

— Ayanna Pressley

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

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

— Ayn Rand

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

— Adrian Rogers

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

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

— Samuel Williams

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

If people cannot limit government they will not for long be free.

— Garet Garrett