Felicity Quote by Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for…

— John C. Calhoun

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public…

— George Bancroft

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support…

— Lysander Spooner

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

— John Jay Chapman

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the…

— John Rawls

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

— Henry David Thoreau

Government is the implementation of the public good.

— Anonymous

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator…

— Aristotle