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

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

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

Bastiat, Frederic

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

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

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

Durant, William J.

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

10.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

11.

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

Reagan, Ronald

12.

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

13.

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

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

Voltaire

15.

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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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Hamilton, Alexander

20.

Safety of the state is the highest law.

Justinian

21.

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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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

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

25.

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

Baxter, Beverley

26.

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Macaulay, Thomas B.

29.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

30.

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

H. L. Mencken

31.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

32.

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

Boytzwnburg, Count

33.

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

Murray, Bill

34.

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

Herbert, A. P.

35.

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

Kempton, Murray

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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

37.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

38.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

40.

The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.

Topes, Lord Justice

41.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

42.

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

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Hume, David

46.

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Socrates

48.

The supply of government exceeds demand.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

George W. Bush