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   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.)
ATTRIBUTION:JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe, trans. Bailey Saunders, maxim 225, p. 107 (1893).
SUBJECTS:Government
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia
WORKS:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Collection
 
 
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