Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Amsterdam, Maury

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

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

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

Kempton, Murray

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

10.

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

Updike, John

11.

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

Marshalov, Boris

12.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

13.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

15.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

16.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Dulles, John Foster

18.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Douglas, William O.

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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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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?

Proverb, French

26.

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

27.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

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

Truman, Harry S

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

30.

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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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.

Durant, William J.

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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

35.

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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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Churchill, Winston

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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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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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In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

43.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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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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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H. L. Mencken

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

Welch, Robert

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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

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.