Good government Quotes · Page 2

There is no right government except good government.

— George Santayana

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

— Isaac Herzog

All good government must begin at home.

— Anonymous

Short-term thinking is the greatest enemy of good government.

— Anthony Albanese

“A good government does dirty jobs.”

— Toba Beta

“We all know that we have to put up with a bad government when it is bad; the problem is to find…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

— Anonymous

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

— Edward Abbey

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

— Matthew Lesko

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

— William Weld

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

— Emma Goldman

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy…

— Alexander Downer

The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate…

— Geoff Mulgan

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities,…

— Warren Mundine

“That tiny part of your soul that believes in a ‘good government’ ideal requires you to avert your eyes from the segment…

— Jim Geraghty

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and…

— William Cobbett

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department…

— George Washington

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If a government has the weak eyesight of a mole, that government only brings disaster to that country! The ability to see…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.…

— Anonymous

In so strong a light, nevertheless, do they appear to the Secretary, that, on their due observance, at the present critical juncture,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Good government should maintain the balance where every individual may have a place if he will take it, where every individual may…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the…

— John Adams

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but it prevents certain evils," such as…

— Bertrand Russell

Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

— Robert Payne

You don't have good government unless you have good people working in government.

— Andy Kim

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

— Confucius

There's huge amounts of good that can be done by a government that works constructively... versus a zero-sum vision of government.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

— Lincoln Steffens

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it.

— Huey Long

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.

— Ana Navarro

Every good government's duty is to do more for the regions that are underdeveloped.

— Amit Shah

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

— Benjamin Disraeli