4th of july Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only…

— Thomas Jefferson

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

— Thomas Jefferson

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

— Benjamin Carson

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

— Thomas Jefferson

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

— Thomas Jefferson

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

— Mercy Otis Warren

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the…

— Alexander Herzen

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

— James Madison

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at…

— Abraham Lincoln