Earth Quote by Lysander Spooner

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

— Anonymous

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

— James A. Garfield

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

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

— Benjamin Franklin

...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

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

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

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

— Ayn Rand

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

— Andrew Jackson

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

As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It…

— Kwame Nkrumah