Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions that benefit innovators and the American people.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.

The purpose of government is to obtain the greatest quantity of human happiness.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

No government has a legitimate right to do what is not for the welfare of the governed.

A body politic is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

TDP is always very assertive for public interest.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.

To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.

It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not define itself as both a punishing and corporate state. This is not merely a matter of redefining sovereignty, but also rethinking what is distinctive about the social state, social responsibility, and the common good.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.