Government Is Founded Quotes
- 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… — Thomas Jefferson
- Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro… — Alexander H. Stephens
- Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson
- Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution… — James Otis
- Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety… — Thomas Jefferson
- Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the… — Andrew Jackson