Arbitrary Quote by Lysander Spooner

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to…

— Joseph Story

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be…

— Gene Sharp

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

— Declaration of Independence

Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people;…

— Robert Kennedy

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or…

— Lysander Spooner

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original…

— Alexander Hamilton

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.”

— Ayn Rand

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

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may…

— James MacGregor Burns