Also Quote by Josiah Strong

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

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations…

— Woodrow Wilson

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the…

— Alexander H. Stephens

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

— Thomas Jefferson

Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot…

— Joseph Joubert

There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated…

— Joseph Story

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history…

— Woodrow Wilson

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

— Ronald Reagan

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world;…

— Thomas Paine