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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
A free government is of all others the most energetic.
Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.
Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.
One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.
