Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Government

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

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

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

Wallis, W. Allen

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Kocher, Gerhard

11.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

12.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

13.

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

Herbert, A. P.

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

18.

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

Murray, Bill

19.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Bastiat, Frederic

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

24.

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

Melbourne, Lord

25.

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

Richard M. Nixon

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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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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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.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

32.

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

Cousin, Victor

33.

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

34.

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

Durant, William J.

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

Updike, John

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

Fred Thompson

38.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

39.

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

40.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

41.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

Bunting, Basil

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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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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

45.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bob Wells

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.