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  • It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

  • It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

  • Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.

    Jean Baptiste Say (1821). “A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes”, p.257
  • The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

    "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.
  • Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2436, Delphi Classics
  • Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

    "The message of the carillon: and other addresses". Book by William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1927.
  • A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.534, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

    Peace   War   Government  
    Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press
  • The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

  • The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

    Government   Roots   Abet  
  • Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

    Husband   Father   Moving  
  • I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

  • I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

  • Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

    "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.
  • The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

    Milton Friedman (1975). “An Economist's Protest”
  • To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

    Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”
  • In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

  • A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

  • 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.

    Selfish   Lying   Mean  
    "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.
  • Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

  • Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

    William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”
  • The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

    War   Struggle   Men  
    Michel Foucault (1975). “The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception”, Vintage
  • A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

  • Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.

    Kings   Men   Law  
  • It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

    Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.139
  • A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

    Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
  • I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

  • Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

    Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books
  • Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

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