Freedom 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,and that…

— 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

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

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

— William Howard Taft

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

— Josh Hawley

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

— Ayn Rand

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

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

Look, ideally I'd like to have free money to give to everybody. The reality is in government you have to choose and make decisions.

— Grant Shapps

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

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

— Gerrit Smith

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists…

— Woodrow Wilson