Best Quote by Henry David Thoreau

That government that governs least governs best.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government is best which governs least

— Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

— Walter Lippmann

“The best government is that which governs least.”

— John L. O'Sullivan

“That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it…

— Henry David Thoreau

Government governed least is government governed best.

— Thomas Jefferson

The government that governs best, governs best!

— Jon Stewart

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best…

— Wendell Berry

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

— Jane Bowles

The government is worst which governs most.

— James Cook

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe