Ends Quote by Algernon Sidney

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,…

— James Mill

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the…

— James Madison

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced,…

— Algernon Sidney

“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

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of…

— William Jennings Bryan

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

The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it, and to…

— John Adams

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the…

— Alexander Hamilton

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various…

— George Mason

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is…

— Leonard E. Read