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Topic·Good government✕clear

Speech · Political speech

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Grover Cleveland

First Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland · 1885

★ 1.1

Historical literature

Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · 1776

★ 2.0

Poem

For where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

1578

★ 3.5

Poem

For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered is best.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 3.6

Essay · Political literature

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.

James Madison

Federalist 62 · 1788

★ 3.7

Letter

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government.

George Washington

1789

★ 7.1

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