Free government Quote by Samuel Williams Download Open image “[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.” — Samuel Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Free government Freedom Government Inspirational Liberty Politics Virtue
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . . — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[I]f we assume a liberty interest but nevertheless say that, even assuming a liberty interest, a state can prohibit it entirely, that would be… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and… — Samuel Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
By this action, the Government has proved that so long as it exists, none of us are truly free. Government and freedom are mutually… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
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