Thus, it is either necessary to switch the entire cultural process from top to bottom to the Ukrainian language, or to be consistent and end Ukrainian literature and not put writers in a terrible, unenviable, difficult situation, which probably has no equal anywhere in the world, in any nation , which respects itself, and a government that respects its people.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
—Thomas Jefferson
Having formed the Russian government, the reactionary bourgeoisie, of course, cannot conduct state work in the Ukrainian language. Because of that, the Ukrainian language, as the language of the Ukrainian state, is canceled and the "equality" of two languages – Russian and Ukrainian – is established. In fact, the Russian language is introduced, all paperwork is conducted in it, and the entire government speaks it, while Ukrainian is ridiculed and called "dog".
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All you need to do is abandon established customs & superstitions & look at the position of every person who lives under a government, whether it be a despotic or the most democratic, & you’ll be horrified at the degree of slavery in which people live while imagining they’re free
—Leo Tolstoy
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
—Thomas Jefferson
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
—Charles Darwin
If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich.
—Laozi
My unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
—Leo Tolstoy
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
—George Washington
When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures;
—Laozi
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
—Mark Twain
When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit.
—Laozi
When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists.
—Laozi
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
—Thomas Jefferson
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
—Thomas Jefferson
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
—Thomas Jefferson
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
—Thomas Jefferson
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
—Thomas Jefferson
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
—Thomas Jefferson
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
—Georg Hegel
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
—Plato
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
—Plato
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
—Plato
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
—Plato
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
—Plato
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
—Socrates
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau