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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
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
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
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
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
— Thomas Jefferson
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
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
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
that government is best which rules least," John Leland Baptist spokesman who knew Thomas Jefferson, circa 1760.
— Robert G. Torbet
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 government that governs best, governs best!
— Jon Stewart
The best government is that which governs least.
— John L. O'Sullivan