Government Quote by John Adams

The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide…

— Algernon Sidney

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,…

— James Mill

The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.

— Bill Clinton

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

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced,…

— Algernon Sidney

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to…

— Hannah Arendt

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

— Arlen Specter

The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.

— William J. Clinton

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

— Ibrahim Babangida

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Cory Doctorow

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding…

— David Lloyd