Arise Quote by John Adams

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation…

— Daniel Webster

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

— Garet Garrett

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people…

— Thomas Jefferson

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

— George Mason

“No government will ever surrender to the wishes of its people. No society will ever be free from the control of its government.”

— Neamat Imam

“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes…

— Rosa Luxemburg

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

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the administration to…

— Walter Lippmann

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,…

— James Mill

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of…

— John Adams