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A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

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.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

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

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

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.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.