Believe Quote by Gerrit Smith

There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free,…

— John Adams

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than…

— Gerry Spence

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

— Gerrit Smith

“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

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

— David Rockefeller

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments… And…

— Leo Tolstoy

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

— Jonathan Swift

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

— Lysander Spooner

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government…

— Lysander Spooner

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make…

— Samuel Adams

Government of man by man in every form is oppression.

— Anonymous

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void,…

— William H. Seward