To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea.
A President needs political understanding to run the government but he may be elected without it.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest insane intolerable.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having but it would not be a good song in my eyes until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song it's just complaining.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty or good or well-bred or graceful or intelligent but because they are themselves.
The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.
I want to state upfront unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction but pursues you never.
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign is the jewel of the kingdom.
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs or a bee makes honey or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Get correct views of life and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly to do good and when summoned away to leave without regret.
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.