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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. Why do this, you may ask? Because it'll be fun. — Rick Mercer

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force. — William Howard Taft

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. — Alexander Hamilton

This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will. — Henry David Thoreau

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. — Harry Browne

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. — Jim Hightower

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson

The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. — Rose Wilder Lane

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. — Lysander Spooner

I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown. — Ted Cruz

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force. — Ayn Rand

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone. — Mike Ross

The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce. — David James Duncan

The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees
that. The only force capable of undermining it is
government. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement. — Donald J. Boudreaux

I'm sure that the standard of public morality we've helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance. — Tommy Douglas

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. — P. Chidambaram

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. — George Washington

History is the same story with different costumes. — Stefan Molyneux

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals. — Neal Boortz

Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence. — David D. Aitken

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. — Neil Peart

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. — Ayn Rand

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. — Nelson Mandela

Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others. — Philip Freneau

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning; — David Hume

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect. — Baron De Montesquieu

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South. — William H. Seward

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force. — Woodrow Wilson

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force. — Ayn Rand

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will. — Mahatma Gandhi

Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. — Stefan Molyneux

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them. — Emile Zola

The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force — Ann Coulter

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others. — Ed Buckner

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities. — Katharina Zell

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. — Robert A. Heinlein

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others. — Ayn Rand

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force. — Thomas Jefferson

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either — Shirin Ebadi

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found. — F. A. Harper

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends. — Walter E. Williams

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. — Alan Keyes

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal. — J.S.B. Morse