Motivational Quotes

Government

Fear is the foundation of most government.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Government

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Baxter, Beverley

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

Updike, John

10.

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

Mirabeau, Comte De

11.

The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away

Caldwell, John S.

12.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Bob Wells

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Reagan, Ronald

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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

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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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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Cousin, Victor

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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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

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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

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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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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

28.

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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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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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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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Limbaugh, Rush

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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 tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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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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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Updike, John

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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.

Lever, Leslie Baron

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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Bertrand Russell

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon