Body Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the…

— Harry Browne

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new…

— Jeff Baxter

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

— Tony Abbott

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

— Andrew Jackson

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded…

— Woodrow Wilson

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant…

— Ayn Rand

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various…

— George Mason

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression…

— Benjamin Tucker

Government is of the people,for the people, and by the people.

— Merliah Summers

"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

— Deval Patrick

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

— John Adams