"Which government is the best? The one..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.”
“Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.”
“Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.”
More on Government
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
“I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.”
“Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy.”
More on Self Governance
“I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as a self-governing people to hear everything relevant.”
“I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj.”
“Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.”