Bases Quote by Robert Toombs

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

— Aristotle

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

— Roger Sherman

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands,…

— William Lloyd Garrison

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

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Our government came into existence through divine guidance. The inspiration of the Lord rested upon the patriots who established it, and inspired them through…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they…

— Anonymous

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

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

— John Adams

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

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

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