The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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.
That government is best which governs least.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.