Motivational Quotes

Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Government

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

Burns, George

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

Pittacus

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.

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

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

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

Hume, David

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

10.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Jackson, Andrew

12.

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

Welch, Robert

13.

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

Marshalov, Boris

14.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Crockett, Davy

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Limbaugh, Rush

18.

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

Durant, William J.

19.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

20.

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

President Barack Obama

21.

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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All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

23.

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

Bob Wells

24.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

26.

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

Updike, John

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

28.

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

29.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Themistocles

32.

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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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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

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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 the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

43.

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

Douglas, William O.

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Bastiat, Frederic

45.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Kocher, Gerhard

47.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

48.

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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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

50.

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

Kocher, Gerhard