Motivational Quotes

Government

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Government

The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Murray, Bill

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects,this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.

Heinlein, Robert

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Jackson, Andrew

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.

Marshalov, Boris

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Amsterdam, Maury

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Shaw, George Bernard

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Lippmann, Walter

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

12.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Baluch, Joy

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.

Igleheart, Austin

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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill

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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to -- and you will -- leave, and be something else.

Noonan, Peggy

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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.

Locke, John

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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

45.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Updike, John

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah