Authority Quote by Alexander Hamilton

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands…

— Sam Houston

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

— Barry Goldwater

Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.

— Barry Goldwater

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

— Patrick Henry

Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty…

— Bernard Baruch

“Government is defined as a right manner of disposing things so as to lead not to the form of the common good, as the…

— Michel Foucault

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.

— Herbert Marcuse

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

— Douglas MacArthur

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…

— Mark Goodwin

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

— G. Edward Griffin

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

“governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Declaration of Independence