Government Quote by Edgar A Suter

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

— Ludwig von Mises

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

— Charles Murray

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

— Henry Bonilla

Politicisation of armed forces should not be done.

— Arun Jaitley

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

— P. D. James

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

— Ambrose Bierce

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

— Laurence Tribe

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

— Vinoba Bhave