Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Baxter, Beverley

Best Quotes about Government

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

Caldwell, John S.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Bunting, Basil

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

10.

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.

11.

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

H. L. Mencken

12.

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

13.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

14.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Roosevelt, Theodore

15.

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

Hume, David

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Baxter, Beverley

20.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

21.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

22.

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

23.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Friedman, Milton

24.

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

25.

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

Reston, James

26.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

27.

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

28.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

29.

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

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

31.

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

Pittacus

32.

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

Burns, George

33.

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

34.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

35.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Friedman, Milton

36.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

37.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

38.

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

Rostand, Jean

39.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

40.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

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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

42.

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

Kocher, Gerhard

43.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

44.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

48.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

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

Douglas, William O.

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.