Claims Quote by Poul Anderson

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and…

— John Adams

Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to…

— Molly Ivins

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded…

— Woodrow Wilson

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

— Gerrit Smith

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up…

— Harry Browne

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

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will...

— Benjamin Tucker

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the…

— Vince Flynn

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

— Emma Goldman

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.

— Milton Friedman