Quotes About Governance

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

The king reigns but does not govern.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.