Areas Quote by William A. Dembski

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

— John C. Calhoun

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

— Lord Acton

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

Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or…

— Warren G. Bennis

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

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

— Martin L Gross

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

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

— Olympia Snowe

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered,…

— Lord Acton

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

— Frank Herbert