Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Government

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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

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

Burns, George

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

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

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

Amsterdam, Maury

11.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

17.

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

Reagan, Ronald

18.

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

Marshalov, Boris

19.

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

Lawson, Nigel

20.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

21.

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

22.

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

23.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

24.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

George W. Bush

29.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Herbert, A. P.

31.

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

Melbourne, Lord

32.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

33.

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

34.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

35.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Ford, Gerald R.

36.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

37.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

38.

All good government must begin at home.

Haweis, H. R.

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

Thomas Heatherwick

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

Caldwell, John S.

42.

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

Bob Wells

43.

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

Bunting, Basil

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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

46.

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

Hume, David

47.

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

Jackson, Andrew

48.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

49.

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

Murray, Bill