Definitions Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

— Daniel Webster

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an…

— Lysander Spooner

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but…

— Aristotle

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with…

— Ludwig von Mises

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams…

— Maximilien Robespierre

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams…

— Maximilien Robespierre

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises

And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a…

— James Harrington

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

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or,…

— Alexander Hamilton