Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
Governments are run by people. People can be bad.
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
One must always keep one's government under control.
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.
The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.
The essence of good government is trust.
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.