Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
Government is connected to everything we do.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it; it is given life only through the national mind, that is to say, by political faith, which is a creed.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.