Color Quote by Frederick Douglass

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private…

— John Adams

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men…

— Leland Stanford

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

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 for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

— Grover Cleveland

“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and…

— Sam Houston

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

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with…

— Ludwig von Mises

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

— Abraham Lincoln