Top 100 Quotes About No Government
#1. All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
Frank Herbert
#2. Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.
Ernest Istook
#4. And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;
Thomas Paine
#5. No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Spencer W. Kimball
#6. Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#7. No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan
#8. It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy ...
Rajneesh
#9. No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
John F. Kennedy
#10. No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
H.L. Mencken
#11. But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
John Jay Hooker
#12. No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.
P.D. James
#13. If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater
#15. During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.
Charles Kennedy
#16. Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#17. Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
Alexander Berkman
#18. Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#19. No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.
P. J. O'Rourke
#20. A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be truth. But no government, no big organisation, will pay for the truth.
George Orwell
#21. Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.
Alexei Mordashov
#22. What's there to be scared about? A post-apocalyptic city with no government or security, surrounded by a desert and swarming with Cranks. I mean, come on. Don't be a sissy.
James Dashner
#23. When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.
Howard Zinn
#24. The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.
Benjamin Tucker
#25. No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.
Bashar Al-Assad
#26. No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
Jared Diamond
#27. Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world - or in the communist countries - has been successful.
Peter Drucker
#28. No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
#29. No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#30. No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#31. No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
Edmund Burke
#32. No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#33. If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
Gary Johnson
#34. No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.
Henry Ford
#35. And the God who ruled absolutely in the life and fortunes of the most powerful monarch of that time still rules in the fortunes and destinies of governments today. No government or dictator is so powerful as to be beyond the sway of His sovereign rule over all the nations of the earth. GOD
Jerry Bridges
#36. If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Fred Woodworth
#38. No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
Rose Wilder Lane
#39. The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
Lysander Spooner
#40. And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
Cormac McCarthy
#41. No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
A.E. Samaan
#43. No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
Frederick The Great
#44. No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
Barry O'Farrell
#45. God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
Max Lucado
#46. I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
#47. Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke.
Lao She
#48. A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
John Stuart Mill
#50. OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
Ambrose Bierce
#51. Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
Daniel Morgan
#52. No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.
Fidel Castro
#53. In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.
David Horsey
#54. Sir, we have a saying in our country: 'There's no government, like no government.
James Wesley, Rawles
#55. The road, they said, was a place apart, a country of its own ruled by no government but natural law, and its one characteristic was freedom.
Charles Frazier
#56. Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.
Steven Magee
#57. There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Gerald R. Ford
#58. No government has ever voluntarily reduced itself in size - and that, in a way, became my theme.
Ronald Reagan
#59. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
James Madison
#60. That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner
#61. No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
Thaddeus Stevens
#62. There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.
Mario Monti
#63. I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
Rand Paul
#64. Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
Bill Owens
#65. No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
Keith O'Brien
#66. The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
H.L. Mencken
#67. Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation ... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
Lionel Murphy
#68. We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:
That South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.
Nelson Mandela
#69. This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
Richard Cobden
#70. No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either
Shirin Ebadi
#71. When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#72. No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.
Charles Kennedy
#73. If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
Roy Moore
#74. Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all greatness and wealth. Without labor there would be no government, no leading class, and nothing to preserve.
Ulysses S. Grant
#75. The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
Frederick Douglass
#76. No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked ...
Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
#77. No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.
Charles Grandison Finney
#78. No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
Thomas Jefferson
#79. No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.
Hillary Clinton
#80. No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
#82. That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof.
George Mason
#83. I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries.
Thomas Jefferson
#84. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
Rita Mae Brown
#85. In principle ... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
Walid Muallem
#86. No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.
Rose Pastor Stokes
#87. No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.
Lysander Spooner
#88. And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
Marco Rubio
#89. Who is the NRA anyway? They are usually middle-income people who only think of themselves, who want to have no government, really, except self-rule by themselves. I think that little cracks are starting to emerge in the NRA armor.
Joycelyn Elders
#90. no government is ever innocent enough or wise enough or just enough to lay claim to so absolute a power as death. (p. 21)
Helen Prejean
#91. The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.
Harry Reid
#92. No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
Woodrow Wilson
#93. No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
Charles Albert Gobat
#94. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Abraham Lincoln
#95. No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
#96. We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.
Penn Jillette
#98. No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.
Roseanne Barr
#99. Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
Robert Higgs
#100. Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us. Recall
J.D. Vance
