Bad government Quote by Henry Morgenthau, Jr

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

— Jesse Ventura

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The government is worst which governs most.

— James Cook

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable…

— Anonymous

The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

— John Sharp Williams

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

— Aesop

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

— H. L. Mencken

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

— Milton Friedman

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

— James Cook