Breaths Quote by James Russell Lowell

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support…

— Lysander Spooner

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and…

— John Ruskin

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.

— John Stossel

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

— Doug Casey

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

— Anonymous

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

— Anonymous

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public…

— George Bancroft

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

— Brad Henry

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for…

— John C. Calhoun

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

— Simon Bolivar