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Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse. — Winston Churchill

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top. — Benjamin Franklin

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years. — Will Rogers

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

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church — Bertrand Russell

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. — Calvin Coolidge

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. — Benjamin Franklin

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad. — Wayne Rogers

I believe - I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer. — Rick Scott

Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments. — Gore Vidal

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse. — Henry Morgenthau Jr.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen. — Paulo Coelho

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world. — John B. Larson

To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying. — Richard Henry Lee

To sin by silnce when they should protest makes cowards of men (and women)... — Abe Lincoln

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy. — Karl Popper

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. — Charles Wheelan

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so. — Oscar Wilde

To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad. — George Washington

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. — Milton Friedman

Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They're going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail? — Kenneth Eade

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants. — Harry Browne

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad ... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social. — Thomas Hobbes

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs. — Rousas John Rushdoony

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones. — Polybius

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad. — Thomas Frank

Ideology that believes government is bad, and that public institutions and places are not valuable, is as destructive as corporate greed. — Cynthia Dill

You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside. — Toba Beta

A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good. — Charles Murray

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion. — Warren Rudman

The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys. — Ted Cruz

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government. — Molly Ivins

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. — Cullen Hightower

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it — Colin Powell

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works. — Matthew Lesko

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. — Thomas Jefferson

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. — Carly Fiorina

Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner

The objective is to change the system and the behaviour it encourages, rather than replacing 'bad' people with 'good' people. — Owen Jones

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

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time. — Tom McClintock

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. — Ambrose Bierce

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad ... — Frank Zappa

The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways. — Alexis De Tocqueville

If men be good, government cannot be bad. — William Penn

Poverty is bad,
but so is decadence.
Tyranny is bad,
but so is chaos.
Injustice is bad,
but so is godlessness. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater. — Milton Friedman

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. — Thomas Jefferson

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments. — Charles Bukowski

The government is promoting bad behavior. — Rick Santelli

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms. — Bill O'Reilly

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. — Ludwig Von Mises

The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell. — Tommy Douglas

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

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. — Harold Washington

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals. — Mark Twain

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. — Alexis De Tocqueville

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. — Denis Diderot

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while. — Margaret Murray

a national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory. — Jim Dodge

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. — Mark Steyn

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. — Bernard Berenson

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets. — Warren Ellis

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. — Nigel Farage

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. — Mackenzie King

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. — John Sharp Williams

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros