For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

That government is best which governs least.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.