Association Quote by Lysander Spooner

Some people trust an insurance company over the government, while others trust the government over insurance companies.

— Jared Polis

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented…

— W. H. Auden

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in…

— George Washington

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

— George Santayana

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends…

— Lysander Spooner

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

— Frederic Bastiat

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

— Russell Kirk