What, then is law [government]? It is the collective…

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat

“What, then, is law? As I have said elsewhere, it is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defence.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

Government is a collective unity. There is no decision by cabinet which can be attributed to one individual.

— Emmerson Mnangagwa

“Unhappily, law is by no means confined to its own department. Nor is it merely in some indifferent and debatable views that it has…

— Anonymous

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is…

— Don Nickles

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination…

— Frederic Bastiat

There is in all of a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons…

— Frederic Bastiat

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

— Stokely Carmichael

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

— John Pugsley

Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government…

— Oscar Fernandes

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect…

— Lysander Spooner

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

— Lord Byron

The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made…

— John D. Rockefeller

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in…

— Rick Warren

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

— Thomas Jefferson