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

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

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Jefferson, Thomas

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

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.

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kempton, Murray

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Einstein, Albert

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

Baluch, Joy

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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

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Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

12.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

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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

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

Updike, John

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

Sade, Marquis De

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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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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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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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

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

Reston, James

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The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hume, David

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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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

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

Amsterdam, Maury

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

Caldwell, John S.

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

Updike, John

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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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 government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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.