
“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”
Speech in the Senate (2 July 1841).
The Five faces of Corruption, p. 45
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.”
Speech in the Senate (2 July 1841).
“Nothing is more dangerous to good government than great power in improper hands.”
Source: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (1929)
Article on Government
L'Encyclopédie (1751-1766)
“Good government is good politics and politics is good government.”
[The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, Paul Michael Green, Melvin G. Holli, Southern Illinois University Press, 1995, 144, ISBN 0809319616]
An ofttimes repeated maxim of Daley's to describe his view on the inseparability of politics and government.
Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1829) edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, p. 70
Posthumous publications
Introduction to Public Policy (2011), Ch. 8 : The Role of Government
“A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.”