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No Government Quotes

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
- John Adams

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

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
- Jesse Jackson

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D Roosevelt

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

Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.
- Deb Caletti

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J Clinton

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

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 K Murphy

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

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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.
- Buenaventura Durruti

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

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

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Frank Herbert

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

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

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- James Madison

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
- James Madison

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

If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
- Roy Moore

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

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
- Cornelius Nepos

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.
- Keith Obrien

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

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

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

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.
- Olaf Stapledon

Women have no government.
- Victoria Woodhull

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

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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