Governs Least Quotes

#1. It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann

#2. The Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. They believe that 'the best government is that which governs least,' and that which governs least is no government at all.

Benjamin Tucker

#3. That government which governs best, governs least.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

Jane Bowles

#5. The best government is that which governs least.

John L. O'Sullivan

#6. That government that governs least governs best.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

Stephen Colbert

#8. You love me?"
"Baby, you were made for me.

Kristen Ashley

#9. Sometimes you just have to hold each other's hands and walk through it all.

A.D. Posey

#10. Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

Noam Chomsky

#11. Perfection is an illusion which often prevents us from accepting the realities of life.

Sandeep Sharma

#12. It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

Wendell Berry

#13. Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

Amelia Barr

#14. Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Pico Iyer

#15. My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.

Todd Gitlin

#16. War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

Georges Clemenceau

#17. The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Pat Robertson

#18. In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.

Matt LeBlanc