All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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.
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.
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
No country is free unless it is democratic.
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.
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
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