Barbaric Quote by H. L. Mencken

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently…

— Henry Louis Mencken

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

— Warren Mundine

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of…

— James Madison

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects…

— Joseph Story

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

— Matthew Lesko

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

— Emma Goldman

Good government is good politics.

— Richard J. Daley

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

— John Jay Chapman

Good government has to mean less government.

— Anonymous

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

— Aristotle

Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be…

— Augustin Thierry

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when…

— Susan B. Anthony