Anarchy Quote by Edward Everett

“Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and…

— David McCullough

This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a…

— Elihu Root

In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority, to make…

— Alexander Hamilton

In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the…

— Samuel Williams

“Those who use the word 'anarchy' to mean disorder or misrule, are not in correct. If they regard government as necessary, if they think…

— Albert Meltzer

“The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defence; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose…

— Frédéric Bastiat

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

— John Milton

“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of spontaneous and…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but…

— James Madison

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into…

— George Washington

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln