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I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. — Huey Long

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 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

If the government did a good job of publicizing this information, my products wouldn't sell. — Matthew Lesko

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. — Charlotte Bunch

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. — Manmohan Singh

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired. — Aminu Kano

A good government does dirty jobs. — Toba Beta

Government exists only for the good of the governed. — Pythagoras

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

Good government is good politics. — Richard J. Daley

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. — Dean Inge

I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have. — George Will

No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames

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

Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert — Sophocles

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion. — Narendra Modi

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government. — Elizabeth I

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program. — Aaron Schock

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. — Lincoln Steffens

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. — Bob Riley

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. — John Tyler

Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism. — Brian Whitman

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery. — Bob McDonnell

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms. — Niccolo Machiavelli

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray. — Allan Sherman

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty. — Samuel Johnson

It is easy to rule over the good. — Plautus

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it? — Pat Paulsen

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience ... but for a criminal government. — Walter Model

If 10% is good enough for God, 9% ought to be good enough for the federal government. — Herman Cain

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. — Jonah Goldberg

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot. — Che Guevara

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

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term. — Clare Short

And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote. "I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for governing, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both. — Marianne Williamson

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government. — Edward Norton

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government. — Benjamin Disraeli

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. — Peter Mandelson

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government. — Edward Abbey

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free. — William Weld

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well. — Matthew Lesko

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good. — Leonard Woolf

God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good. — William R. Bowen

Good government has to mean less government. — John Stossel No They Can T

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies. — James Cook

When government is ... bailing out banks ... we have every good reason to be alarmed. — Mitt Romney

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it. — Jarvis Cocker

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good. — Joel Miller

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. — Henry David Thoreau

the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of its citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good'.76 — Edward Luce

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. — Walter Lippmann

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. — William Ewart Gladstone

My relationship has never been good with the government. — John McAfee

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values. — Li Hongzhi

There is no right government except good government. — George Santayana

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers. — Rick Warren

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job. — Pat Paulsen

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. — Confucius

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin. — Elizabeth I

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

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. — Joel Miller

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job. — Tony Abbott

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. — Jay Weatherill

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. — Jeremy Bentham

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government. — James L. Petigru

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information. — Narendra Modi

I am against all forms of government, including good government. — Edward Abbey

Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government — Bangambiki Habyarimana

So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form of treason. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation. — Richard Jewell

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government. — Thomas Jefferson

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil]. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. — Margaret Thatcher

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government. — Asif Ali Zardari

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. — Bob Dole

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

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people. — Cornelius Nepos

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

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less. — Charles Kennedy

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. — Daniel Webster

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

Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government. — David Brin

Good government is no substitute for self-government. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do. — Milton Friedman

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation. — Thomas Francis Meagher

It is not good to have a rule of many. — Homer

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

Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job. — Jan Brewer

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas. — Jack Markell