Motivational Quotes

Government

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Government

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

Thomas Heatherwick

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

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

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

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Bastiat, Frederic

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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

Richard M. Nixon

10.

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

11.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Wotton, Sir Henry

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Fear is the foundation of most government.

Adams, John

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Updike, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Bob Wells

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

Jackson, Andrew

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Baxter, Beverley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Twain, Mark

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The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Chapman, John Jay

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

40.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

Crockett, Davy

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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

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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

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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

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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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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

Hospers, John

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

Reston, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.