"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
Topic(s):
Government
More From Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."
- "Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory."
- "In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
More In Government
- "Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party."― William Hague
- "I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money."― Barbara Bush
- "Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved."― Mitt Romney