Quotes of: Free-government Keyword

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

John Adams

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.

Lysander Spooner

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

Marco Rubio

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

George Allen

I’m for a big government. A big government contraction.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

Whether you agree with its policy or not, your dealing with government is not voluntary, but coercive. Government is the very antithesis of ‘free market’.

Life After the State

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

Esther Dyson

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

Jim Bunning

It's that Romney is taking advantage of the government's 'free stuff,' too, and has been profiting from it handsomely for a long, long time - even as he rails about the 'free stuff' that the government provides other people.

Jennifer Granholm

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

Steve Largent

Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in th...

David Stern

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

John Stossel

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

Michael Steele

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

P. J. O'Rourke

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

James P. Hoffa

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

Mark McKinnon

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Hugo Black

I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold fo...

John G. Diefenbaker

As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.

Samuel Freeman Miller

The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden...

Peter Schiff

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson