N Quotes
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“No goodness, no peace - no goodness, no assimilation – no goodness, no justice.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.”
“No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever. No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever. There is no justification for a genocide. I can’t believe this even needs to be said or is even considered the least bit controversial to state.”
“No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.”
Source: The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry
“No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.”
Source: The Children of Men
“No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.”
“No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814
“No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.”
“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“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.”
“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
“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.”
“No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either”
“No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?”
“No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.”
“No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.”
Source: Modern Democracies
“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.”
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Governments' programs once launched unfortunately never disappear...Get real.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.”
“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!”
“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.”
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”
Source: The Eagle's Throne: A Novel
“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.”
Source: A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches
“No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.”
“No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.”
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”
“No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love”
“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.”
“No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration
“No government is my authority, no monarchy is my master. I am here to civilize the governments and abolish the monarchies.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.”
“No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.”
“No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.”
Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury
“No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!”
“No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.”
“No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.”
“No government ought to be without censors: and where the press is free, no one ever will. If virtuous, it need not fear the fair operation of attack and defence. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting out the truth either in religion, law, or politics. I think it as honorable to the government neither to know, nor notice, it’s sycophants or censors, as it would be undignified and criminal to pamper the former and persecute the latter.”
Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 24: 1 June-31 December 1792
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.”
“No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.”
Source: Johnsonian miscellanies