Can not Quote by Abraham Lincoln

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against…

— William Godwin

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate…

— H. L. Mencken

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

— William A. Dembski

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.

— Thomas DiLorenzo