Chosen Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

— James Madison

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

— Edward Coke

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

— Benjamin Carson

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.

— Rajneesh

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex…

— Susan B. Anthony

“The coercion which a government must still use … is reduced to a minimum and made as innocuous as possible by restraining it through…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented…

— W. H. Auden

Manipulation is to enslave the will without the other party's consent.

— Josh Q