Disobedience Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded…

— Woodrow Wilson

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set…

— Vint Cerf

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey,…

— Alexander Berkman

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

— John Galt

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create…

— Thaddeus Stevens

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any government shall…

— George Mason

“The purpose of government, and therefore of law, is not to cause justice to prevail, but rather, to prevent injustice from reigning. Justice is…

— Joseph Befumo

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment…

— Alexander Hamilton

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

— Emmerson Mnangagwa

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

— Ibn Khaldun

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber