It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding that it can hold men's hearts by hopes when it cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. — George Grenville Copy Share Image
