government………….?

hustler591: government………….?
in your own words how would you define government?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Sovereign
Government should be, and once was, the creation of the people for the benefit of the people.

Today it is the creation of the bankers and lawyers for the subjection of the people.

Answer by Some Dude
the guy above me basically put it in simple black and white for you

Answer by somebody
“The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of [their] war [for independence, a nation begins] going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of [that] war will remain on [them] long, will be made heavier and heavier, till [their] rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782. (*) ME 2:225
“It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government.
– Thomas Paine

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
– President Abraham Lincoln
“If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
– Samuel Adams