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Free Government Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom…
- Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.
- The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not…
- Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.
- A free government is of all others the most energetic.
- Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety…
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- The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. — John Adams
- Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind… — Thomas Jefferson
- 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
- It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship… — Joseph Story
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison
- No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,… — George Mason
- No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson
- It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be… — Calvin Coolidge
- The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and… — John C. Calhoun
- Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government. — Thomas Jefferson
- The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of… — George Washington