Acceptable Quote by Daniel Webster

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

— Ayn Rand

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

— Edmund Burke

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

— Garet Garrett

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever…

— Ronald Reagan

A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to…

— Alexander Hamilton

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to…

— John Stuart Mill

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education,…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

— Anonymous

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.

— Edmund Burke

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

— Lyndon B. Johnson