Bad government Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

— Matthew Lesko

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Aesop

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

— Jesse Ventura

In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

— Confucius

Good government has to mean less government.

— Anonymous

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

— Voltaire

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion;…

— Eric Hoffer

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is…

— Laozi

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but…

— Thomas Paine