Answers Quote by Edmund Burke

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

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 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

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

— Franz Grillparzer

We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government…

— David Frum

By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually…

— Max Barry

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by…

— Jeff Berwick

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

— Josh Hawley

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

— Anonymous

This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in…

— George Washington