Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits…

— Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or…

— John Adams

Good government has to mean less government.

— Anonymous

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our…

— Warren Mundine

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

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects…

— Joseph Story

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him…

— H. L. Mencken

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed,…

— William Cobbett

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they…

— David Hume