Anarchist Quote by Benjamin Tucker

A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent…

— Calvin Coolidge

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

— William H. Douglas

It is equally clear that a government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover,…

— Calvin Coolidge

No people without a government of their own can expect to be treated on the same level as people of independent sovereign states. It…

— Kwame Nkrumah

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in…

— Vaclav Havel

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On…

— Randolph Bourne

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

— Thomas Jefferson

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 supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost. And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth,…

— Mikhail Bakunin

State-building can not be imposed. Its foundation must be a shared understanding between those who govern, and those who give their consent to be…

— Hilary Benn

All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense…

— Murray Rothbard

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

— Frank Herbert