Able Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which…

— John C. Calhoun

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

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

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to…

— George Washington

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

— Ludwig von Mises

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

— James Madison

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and…

— Henry David Thoreau

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“MY THESIS, in simplest terms, is: Let anyone do anything he pleases, so long as it is peaceful; the role of government, then, is…

— Leonard E. Read

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

— Ibn Khaldun

“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