The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

When the government violates the people's rights insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.

Good breeding differs if at all from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.