Assurance Quote by Robert H. Jackson

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

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the…

— Ronald Reagan

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

— Abraham Lincoln

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we…

— Marco Rubio

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

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

— Charley Reese

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

— William Howard Taft

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly…

— Joseph Sobran