Bad government Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

— William Penn

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

— Joyce Cary

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

— Nathan Myhrvold

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

— Emma Goldman

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I…

— Andrew Johnson

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

— Aristotle

“It seems to be difficult if not impossible for human beings to avoid thinking of government as mystical entity with a nature and a…

— H.L. Mencken

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

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman