Being Quote by Jeff Berwick

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

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

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'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

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

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

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

— John Stossel

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

— William Weld

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else

— Kwame Nkrumah

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward…

— Simone de Beauvoir

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers…

— George Jonas

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

— Garet Garrett