Quote from Herbert Spencer 

"The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him."

Quote by:
Herbert Spencer
(1820-1903) British author, economist, philosopher
Source:
Social Statics, 1850
 
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