Exists Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

— William A. Dembski

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at…

— Abraham Lincoln

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

— Edmund Burke

Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it;…

— Joseph de Maistre

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

— Lord Acton

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

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up…

— Harry Browne

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

— Rick Perry

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of…

— Harry Browne