Community Quote by Paul Ryan

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be…

— George Mason

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any government shall…

— George Mason

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

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private…

— John Adams

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

— William J. Clinton

The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their…

— Alexander Hamilton

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this…

— Thomas Paine

There is no right government except good government.

— George Santayana