Free Governments

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or governments:

“And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of men ... ours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)