Dread Quote by Samuel Williams

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

— Frank Herbert

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed…

— Harry Browne

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

— Ayn Rand

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator…

— Aristotle

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

— Samuel Horsley

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

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

— Anonymous

A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they…

— John Stuart Mill

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