Motivational Quotes

Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Government

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

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

Truman, Harry S

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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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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.

Boytzwnburg, Count

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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

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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

Baxter, Beverley

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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

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There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Reston, James

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

Hospers, John

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

Cousin, Victor

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Durant, William J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

33.

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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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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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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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We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

45.

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

Caldwell, John S.

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I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Crossman, Richard

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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

Marshalov, Boris

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.