“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Related Quotes “If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.”– Noam Chomsky “It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.”– Tony Blair “Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.”– Thomas B. Macaulay