Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 719 |
| AUTHOR: | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
| QUOTATION: | Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. (Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige, die uns lehrt, uns selbst zu regieren.) |
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| SUBJECTS: | Government |