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

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Governments are not always right.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

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.