Assumption Quote by Jonah Goldberg

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

— John Updike

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

— Teresa Heinz

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

— Frank Herbert

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

— Pythagoras

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.

— George W. Bush

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

— Lyn Nofziger

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

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

— Plato

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

— Andy Kim