America freedom Quote by Woodrow Wilson

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this…

— Abraham Lincoln

The basis of our government (is) is opinion of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

— Samuel Williams

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose.…

— Abraham Lincoln

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the…

— Ronald Reagan

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

— Nick Clegg

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people…

— Walter Lippmann

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than…

— Algernon Sidney

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public…

— George Bancroft