Begets Quote by Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the…

— Thomas Jefferson

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

— Jon Meacham

“There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of…

— Frank Herbert

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey,…

— Alexander Berkman

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

— Frank Herbert

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

— Clinton Rossiter

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

— Huey Newton

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on…

— Kofi Annan

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

— Donald J. Boudreaux

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it…

— Jane Addams