Answers Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The government doesn't want us to know what they're doing, how they're interpreting the law, how they're interpreting and redefining their powers, and increasingly,…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against…

— William Godwin

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Government, however, has its sole legitimate function in preventing the violation of the lives, liberties, and properties of its constituents. It is not empowered…

— Joseph Befumo

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you…

— George Haven Putnam

We should be able to go to our government and get clear answers.

— Wesley Snipes

“The purpose of government, and therefore of law, is not to cause justice to prevail, but rather, to prevent injustice from reigning. Justice is…

— Joseph Befumo

United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under…

— Leonard Peltier

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government:…

— Charles Inglis

We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law.

— Lucy Stone