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Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master. — George Washington

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen. — Susette La Flesche

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups. — Todd Park

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society. — Richard Branson

That government that governs least governs best. — Thomas Jefferson

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible. — Alistair Cooke

Government governed least is government governed best. — Thomas Jefferson

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written. — Thomas Jefferson

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. — Walter Lippmann

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. — Alexander Pope

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it. — Amit Kalantri

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy

I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make. — Gary Johnson

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. — Sophocles

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care. — Rick Perry

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government. — Robert Jackson

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. — Abbie Hoffman

I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism. — Jeff Grubb

The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left. — Gilles Deleuze

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem. — Julius Genachowski

If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it. — John J. Rooney

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into. — Lee Child

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. — Ronald Reagan

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. — William F. Buckley Jr.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst. — Jane Bowles

that government is best which rules least," John Leland Baptist spokesman who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760. — Robert G. Torbet

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind. — Euripides

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best — Otto Von Bismarck

Those are governed best who are governed least. — Thomas Jefferson

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. — Benazir Bhutto

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. — Andy Stern

If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat — Dennis Prager

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application. — William Weld

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does. — Marianne Williamson

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed. — Simon Bolivar

We have the best government that money can buy. — Mark Twain

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. — James Monroe

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.

With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist. — Thomas Jefferson

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil ... — Howard Zinn

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is! — Elizabeth Gaskell

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity. — Edwin Gaustad

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. — John Erskine

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. — Stephen Hawking

New Zealand has the best government money can buy. — Grant McLachlan

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations. — Suzy Kassem

Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy. — Alfred North Whitehead

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first. — Martha Gellhorn

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. — Philip Sidney

That government is best that governs not at all. — Henry David Thoreau

The best solution would be for the federal government to say, 'Yes, we do provide coverage and it's from day one.' — Andrew P. Harris

That government which governs best, governs least. — Thomas Jefferson

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it's giving way to something else. — Julian Barnes

Open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best. — John Ringo

How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy? — Alan W. Watts

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. — Kakha Bendukidze

I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights. — Gisela Stuart

Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring. — Edmund Morris

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life. — Frances Perkins

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest. — Henry Ward Beecher

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? — Alan Watts

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least. — Pat Robertson

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government — Winston Churchill

Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps. — Arnold Kling

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. — Thomas Jefferson

An hereditary aristocracy ... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. — Thomas Jefferson

That is the best Government, which best provides for war. — Algernon Sidney

We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate. — Deval Patrick

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government ... — George Washington

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government. — Jack Kemp

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution. — William Earl Maxwell

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you. — Muqtada Al Sadr

They should rule who are able to rule best. — Aristotle.

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. — Harry Browne

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. — Ronald Reagan

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self. — Trent Lott

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it. — James Cook

The government that governs best, governs best! — Jon Stewart

The best government is that which governs least. — John L. O'Sullivan

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time. — Rob McKenna