Chiefs Quote by Barry Goldwater

The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last…

— Alexander Hamilton

“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

“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used…

— Altiero Spinelli

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little…

— Walter E. Williams

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine…

— Oliver Ellsworth

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Patrick Henry

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill…

— William O. Douglas

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

— Madame de Stael

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer…

— John A. Hobson

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty,…

— Calvin Coolidge