When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
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.
The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.
The people want government that works for them at every level.
The essence of good government is trust.
Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.