Motivational Quotes

Government

Fear is the foundation of most government.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Government

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Kempton, Murray

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Dulles, John Foster

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Marshalov, Boris

16.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Burns, George

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

Douglas, William O.

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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

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

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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

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Pittacus

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

Solon

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

Murray, Bill

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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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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard

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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, James

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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Fred Thompson

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

43.

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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A man without a vote is man without protection.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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