Back Quote by Madison Cawthorn

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed…

— Susan B. Anthony

Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our…

— Rand Paul

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

— William J. Clinton

People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account.

— Sadiq Khan

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

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another…

— James Bovard

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

— Thomas Jefferson

GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

— Thomas Jefferson

Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

— Francis Hutcheson

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else…

— John Gardner

“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