Character Quote by Joseph Sobran

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands…

— Sam Houston

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will…

— Jefferson Davis

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world;…

— Thomas Paine

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its own prerogatives…

— Ben Carson

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people…

— Thomas Jefferson

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the…

— Charles Koch

It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for…

— B. R. Ambedkar

It's time to roll back superfluous governmental regulations and limit government to its sole task: safeguarding the rights of its citizens.

— Madison Cawthorn

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop.…

— Anonymous